$10,000 award offered in downtown shooting case; read press release here.
Crime of the Week #2
January 11, 2019 HOMICIDE It was nearly midnight on Tuesday, January 8, 2018 when two men in a red SUV dropped Derrico Houston at the emergency room door at St. Francis Hospital, 5959 Park Avenue in East Memphis. Houston was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound in the emergency room.…
Crime of the Week #1
January 4, 2019 HOMICIDE Memphis Police officers from the Crump Blvd. station were sent to investigate a shooting call in the 1100 block of Rozelle Street, near Southern Avenue, at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, December 15, 2018. Arriving officers found a male on the ground and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.…
Crime of the Week #47
December 28, 2018 HOMICIDE A report of a car accident brought Memphis Police officers from the Old Allen Station to the intersection of Aden Street and Willow Wood Avenue, near Frayser Boulevard. The caller said a car had struck a tree but the caller was unsure how long ago it…
Crime of the Week #46
December 21, 2018 HOMICIDE At 9 p.m. on Friday, December 14, 2018 Memphis Police officers of the Tillman Station were dispatched to the intersection of Omar Robinson St. and Heard Ave. near Hollywood on a “shots fired” call. At the scene officers found a victim lying in the street and…
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