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…

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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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Crime of the Week #30

October 9, 2020 HOMICIDE A caller to 911 operators reported a woman lying on a city street at 3 a.m. October 1, 2020. The call quickly was referred to the Memphis Police Department’s Mt. Moriah station. Police responded to 3896 Lamar Avenue, outside a motel property near New Getwell Road.…

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Crime of the Week #29

September 25, 2020 HOMICIDE A report of shots fired at 6:52 a.m. Monday, September 21, 2020 brought Memphis Police officers from the Airways station to the 1700 block of Preston Street in south Memphis. When they arrived, the officers found a man slumped down in a chair on the front…

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