$10,000 award offered in downtown shooting case; read press release here.
Crime of the Week #42
November 16, 2018 HOMICIDE It was approximately 2 p.m. Sunday, November 11, 2018 when Memphis Police officers from the Airways station officers responded to a shooting call at Pendleton Street and Burns Avenue, near the Orange Mound neighborhood. At the scene officers found a victim lying on the sidewalk and…
Crime of the Week #41
November 9, 2018 HOMICIDE It was about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 when MPD officers working at the Crump station reached the scene of a reported shooting in the 800 block of Edith Avenue, near Mississippi Boulevard and E. McLemore Avenue. After arriving officers located two people suffering…
Crime of the Week #40
November 2, 2018 HOMICIDE Memphis Police responded to a shooting call at 1:03 p.m. Sunday, October 21, 2017 in the 4300 block of Old Raleigh LaGrange Road. At the scene officers found Saul Rentario on the ground. He was suffering an apparent gunshot wound and was unresponsive. Rentaria was pronounced…
Crime of the Week #39
October 26, 2018 COLD CASE: HOMICIDE Editor’s note: We are highlighting this week a homicide from nearly two years ago. The victim’s parents have asked Sonya Marquez, a supervisor with the MPD’s Real Time Crime Center and our liaison with the Albuquerque, New Mexico Police Department, to put a renewed…
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