MPD identifies second victim in Memphis Rox shooting
Jarmond Johnson, 25, an employee at the local rock-climbing facility, was the other man killed.
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Jarmond Johnson, 25, an employee at the local rock-climbing facility, was the other man killed.
When officers came to arrest Dedrick Patterson at his home, they only found his father, who told officers his son had just left with his mother.
“While the data tells one part of the story, what matters is that people in our neighborhoods are starting to feel the difference in their homes,” Memphis Police Department Chief C.J. Davis said.
Farris Haley, 28, has been charged in a South Memphis double shooting Sunday, June 29, that killed a Memphis Rox employee.
Four people have applied to be appointed to the remainder of Judge Paula Skahan’s term, which ends in 2030.
Video shows the man, who was in a wheelchair, being checked with a metal detector wand by a security officer before being waved through the checkpoint.
Officers responded to the shooting in the 200 block of Union Avenue at 11:34 p.m.
The federal judge formerly presiding over the Tyré Nichols case could be deposed over his recusal from the case earlier this month.
At 5:48 a.m., officers responded to an armed party call at a Shell gas station at South Goodlett Street and Winchester Road.
The list was discovered in a storage unit the accused man, Trenton Abston, owns, according to testimony from a Memphis Police Department sergeant.
Harris also told commissioners June 18 he is open to supporting a property tax increase to fund the lab.
The former officers charged in Tyré Nichols’ death could now be sentenced as late as October, nearly a year after three of them — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley and Justin Smith — were convicted at trial.
The U.S. District judge handling the case recused himself last week, though it’s still unclear why.
The two men were charged after an April shooting that left two teens dead.
Pervis Payne, 58, was convicted in 1988 of stabbing to death Charisse Christopher, 28, and her 2-year-old daughter, Lacie.
The shooting happened after police approached “a large group of individuals in the parking lot of a business,” according to TBI.
Control of the Shelby County Youth Justice and Education Center will shift from the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office to the Shelby County Division of Corrections.
A federal judge has recused himself in the case of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the 2023 death of Tyré Nichols.
A new study shows potential locations for a new Shelby County Jail and highlights the deteriorating conditions of the current facility at 201 Poplar Avenue.
Desmond Mills Jr. was originally scheduled to be sentenced on federal charges June 17, but that date has been pushed to June 23.
The case began with the Jan. 10, 2019, murder of the “supreme elite chief” of the Unknown Vice Lords Ronald Terry and his girlfriend, Candid Sanders.
The former officer pleaded guilty in federal court in November 2023 to using excessive force against Nichols and conspiring to witness tamper after his beating. He also agreed to plead guilty to some of his charges in state court.
Attorney Ben Crump made his remarks at a celebration for what would have been Tyré Nichols’ 32nd birthday at I Am A Man Plaza in Downtown Memphis.
Memphis came in second behind San Francisco, which saw 764 car thefts per 100,000 people.
The sentencing dates come less than a month after Bean, Haley and Smith were acquitted of all charges at the state level.