Background: News footage of the Memphis, Tenn. home where Andrew Rainer was found dead on Oct. 3, 2021 (WHBQ). Inset (left): Rainess Holmes (Shelby County Sheriff’s Office). Inset (right): Andrew Rainer (Canale Funeral Directors).
A Tennessee man who fatally shot a college student in the chest while robbing him learned his fate after pleading guilty to the crime.
In a Facebook post, the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office announced that Rainess Holmes III, 39, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the 2021 robbery and shooting death of 22-year-old Andrew Rainer. Holmes was one of four men who burst into the home where Rainer was staying as a guest and robbed the residence at gunpoint. The DA said that Holmes was not the man who fired the fatal shot.
