$10,000 award offered in downtown shooting case; read press release here.
Crime of the Week #6
February 28, 2020 HOMICIDE Memphis Police Department dispatched officers from the Appling Farms precinct to the 300 block of South Birkshire Cove, off Raleigh-LaGrange Road in Cordova. On arrival they located a gunshot victim inside a house. Korey Dupree was pronounced dead at the scene by Memphis Fire Department paramedics.…
Crime of the Week #5
February 21, 2020 HOMICIDE Memphis Police officers from the Old Allen Station were asked to meet Memphis Fire Department personnel at the scene of a shooting near the intersection of Overton Crossing and Durham Drive in north Memphis just after 11 p.m. on Thursday, January 30, 2020. There officers found…
Crime of the Week #4
February 7, 2020 HOMICIDE Memphis Police officers from the Tillman Street station answered a call about a shooting at Mt. Olive Road and Pope Street, not far from Douglas High School. Officers arrived to find three gunshot victims. The three were transported to Regional One Hospital. One, Charles Preyer, was…
Crime of the Week #3
January 31, 2020 HOMICIDE Reports of a shooting brought Memphis Police officers from the Appling Farms Station to the 6200 block of Coteswood Road near Leichester Lane. When they arrived the policemen found Thomas Washington inside a silver Honda Accord. He had been shot and soon was pronounced dead by…
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