MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Shelby County District Attorney's Office says the court has found probable cause for a man accused of beating a friend to death with a pole. Alfred Draper, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shanqualus Morgan. He is being held in the Shelby County Jail on a $1.5 million bond. Alfred Draper (SCSO) On October 11, 2023, officers responded to the 1600 block of Rayburn Street in South Memphis and found Morgan, 46, unresponsive in a grassy field. Draper was allegedly seen on surveillance footage striking Morgan with his car, chasing him down, and beating him unconscious with a pole. During a hearing this week, one witness described the victim’s head as being “caved in.” The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma. District Attorney Steve Mulroy said that based on witness testimony elicited by ADA Alexia Crump, General Sessions Judge Louis Montesi made a finding of probable cause and held the case to state as charged. Victim Shanqualus Morgan WREG spoke with the victim’s sister in July, and she said she was the one who found her brother unresponsive after a neighbor told her he was attacked. Jernise Morgan says that Draper and Shanqualus had known each other for years. “He grew up around my brothers, he knows my brother, he knows them, so for you to be the person to take my brother’s life, that says a lot about you as a person,” Jernise Morgan said. Days after the interview aired, Draper was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals at an East Memphis shopping center off Park Avenue and Getwell Road.