‘Crime calamity’ spurs CrimeStoppers to raise rewards for murder tips
“We don’t want anyone that calls anonymously to think they are calling the police or they are calling anyone else,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County, at a July 28 press conference. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
With rising crime in the city, CrimeStoppers is doubling the amount of money it awards for tips that help solve murders.
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Memphis CrimeStoppersAarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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