$10,000 award offered in downtown shooting case; read press release here.
Crime of the Week #34
November 6, 2020 HOMICIDE A Cold Case It was about 6 p.m. on a Friday evening — Halloween — October 31, 2014 when Samuel D. Johnson and a friend walked from the North Frayser Community Center, 2555 St. Elmo Avenue toward the friend’s house. When they reached the intersection of…
Crime of the Week #33
October 30, 2020 HOMICIDE The report of a one-car crash brought Memphis Police officers from the Tillman station to 1524 Tayner Street, just off Chelsea Avenue in the Douglass neighborhood, at 11:20 p.m. Tuesday October 27, 2020. Arriving officers located a man lying across the front seat of a black…
Crime of the Week #32
October 23, 2020 HOMICIDE It was five minutes after midnight on Sunday, May 24, 2015 when Memphis Police officers assigned to the downtown entertainment district responded to a shooting report on South Fourth Street, near Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. There they found in the street the body of…
Crime of the Week #31
October 16, 2020 HOMICIDE A Cold Case It was 4:45 in the afternoon, Wednesday October 7, 2020, when officers assigned to the Memphis Police Department’s Crump station responded to reports of a shooting in the 200 block of Adolphus just east of Third Street in South Memphis. At the scene…
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