Crime of the Week #5

February 18, 2022 HOMICIDE Memphis Police Officers stationed at Austin Peay were dispatched at 8:18 a.m. Wednesday, February 9, 2020 to investigate a “man down” report in the area of Alta Vista Avenue and Rainer Drive near Whitley Avenue in Frayser. When they arrived the officers found an unresponsive male…

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Crime of the Week #4

February 11, 2022 HOMICIDE A report of a shooting sent a Memphis Police cruiser from the Tillman Station to the 3700 block of Carnes Avenue just west of Audubon Park a few minutes past midnight Saturday, February 5, 2022. At the scene officers located a man lying in the street…

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Crime of the Week #3

January 30, 2022 HOMICIDE It was 4:45 p.m. on a Thursday afternoon — January 13, 2022 — when another report of an interstate highway shooting came to the Memphis Police Department. Mt. Moriah station officers were dispatched to the end of the Lamar Avenue westbound exit ramp on the south…

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Crime of the Week #2

January 21, 2022 HOMICIDE Memphis Police Officers assigned to the Rains Road station responded at 12:10 am. Sunday, January 8, 2022 to a car crash reported at Dividend Drive and Corporate Avenue, at the Nonconnah Corporate Center just off I-240’s south leg. On arrival they found two deceased individuals who…

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