Tennessee repeat felon charged in Rhodes College student's 2021 murder learns his fate

A repetition felon charged successful transportation with a Rhodes College student's 2021 execution and location penetration pleaded blameworthy connected Monday and received his situation sentence.

Rainess Holmes, present 40, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution and was sentenced to service 100% of a 20-year situation sentence, positive a combined 9 years for 3 abstracted burglary cases.

Holmes, a vocation transgression with charges dating backmost to 2005, was 1 of 4 men who broke into a Memphis location lodging respective assemblage students, including 22-year-old elder Andrew "Drew" Rainer, astatine 5:40 a.m. connected Oct. 3, 2021, Shelby County tribunal records state.

The surviving residents told Memphis constabulary that 4 men with hoodies drawn implicit their faces kicked successful their doorway and demanded the students' electronics.

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Rainess Holmes, present 40, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree execution and was sentenced to service 100% of a 20-year situation sentence, positive a combined 9 years for 3 abstracted burglary cases. (Memphis PD)

"Andrew Rainer was told to benignant successful the walk codification to his iPad and erstwhile helium failed to bash truthful was shot," the apprehension affidavit states.

The suspects near the location with "several phones, gaming systems, video games" and different electronics belonging to the victims, constabulary said.

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"Andrew Rainer was told to benignant successful the walk codification to his iPad and erstwhile helium failed to bash truthful was shot," the apprehension affidavit states. (Canale Funeral Directors)

When Memphis constabulary arrived astatine the scene, they recovered Rainer dormant with a gunshot coiled astatine the bottommost of a staircase wrong the home.

One of the residents of the location was capable to way his iPad's determination to a hotel, wherever authorities were capable to found a perimeter and yet way down Holmes, but helium fled the area, "jumped a drainage ditch and escaped the area." He was concisely placed connected the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted database and was detained 2 days aboriginal connected Oct. 5.

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Holmes, a vocation transgression with charges dating backmost to 2005, was 1 of 4 men who broke into a Memphis location lodging respective assemblage students, including 22-year-old elder Andrew "Drew" Rainer, astatine 5:40 a.m. connected Oct. 3, 2021, Shelby County tribunal records state. (Google Maps)

The Shelby County District Attorney's Office said successful a Monday connection that it "worked precise closely" with Rainer's household "throughout the process."

"They were contiguous successful tribunal and supportive of the outcome," the DA's bureau said.

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Holmes has a lengthy transgression past dating backmost to 2005. (TBI)

Holmes was not the fishy who fatally changeable Rainer. Memphis constabulary are inactive searching for the different 3 suspects progressive successful the location penetration and murder.

Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for accusation starring to immoderate further arrests successful the case.

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A memorial money created successful Rainer's sanction called "Live Like Drew" says helium "loved with large intensity, and showed tremendous courageousness and self-sacrifice." (Live Like Drew)

"One apprehension has been made comparative to this homicide," Major Webb Kirkdoffer of the Memphis Police Department’s Homicide Bureau said successful a statement. "However, investigators inactive request the public’s assistance identifying further individuals who are liable for Rainer’s murder."

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A memorial money created successful Rainer's sanction called "Live Like Drew" says helium "loved with large intensity, and showed tremendous courageousness and self-sacrifice." He was besides an accomplished instrumentalist who played successful an 80s stone band, an avid reader, an Eagle Scout, and a devoted subordinate of the Catholic Church, according to his obituary.

"Drew was a loving son, brother, nephew, relative and friend. He was a kind, cheerful, intelligent and outgoing young man, who was loved by his friends," his obituary said.