Crime of the Week #30

August 17, 2018

HOMICIDE

At 6:45 p.m. Friday, August 10, 2018 Memphis Police Department’s Tillman Street precinct received a call about a shooting in the 2400 block of Carnes Avenue, just east of Airways Blvd. Officers arrived to find a victim suffering from a gunshot wound on a house’s front porch. He said he had been on nearby Whittington when shooting started and he ran to Carnes to escape the gunfire. There he discovered he had been shot.

Officers proceeded to Whittington and found Christopher Finley lying in the street. He had been shot several times and was pronounced dead on the scene. Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to contact CrimeStoppers. Call 528-CASH (2274) or contact us anonymously via text on a smart phone: crimestopmem.org/tips.