Man accused of city-wide shooting spree in 2022 gets new trial date
Ezekiel Kelly’s trial is now set for Feb. 9, 2026.
Aarron Fleming covers public safety for The Daily Memphian. He began at The Daily Memphian in 2022, covering education before moving to public safety the following year. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis.
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Ezekiel Kelly’s trial is now set for Feb. 9, 2026.
The trial is expected to last around two weeks.
Even though the Memphis Police Department’s numbers point to a decrease in crime, some in the city are skeptical.
The Young Mob gang allegedly “receives money and income from drug trafficking, kidnappings and robberies,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Prosecutors say rapper Adolph Thornton Jr., also known as Young Dolph, was shot and killed in 2021 due to a longstanding feud between two rival record labels.
“They’re taking our aunts, our neighbors who have no criminal record. This (presidential) administration has criminalized being brown, being an immigrant.”
The federal judge who formerly presided over the criminal case of the five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Tyré Nichols has recused himself in more cases involving attorneys on the Nichols case.
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.