There are 5 article(s) tagged Fatal police shooting:

• March 2022

  • ‘Hands up! Don’t shoot': The forgotten Memphis police killing of Black teenager Larry Payne

    A half century later, family still fights for recognition to soften “a pain that will never go away.''

    By Laura Faith Kebede March 29, 2022

• April 2021

  • Protesters decry latest police shootings around country

    Around 30 people gathered outside the National Civil Rights Museum on Sunday, April 18, to demand justice in three recent police killings in Knoxville, Chicago and Minnesota. 

    By Yolanda Jones April 19, 2021

• September 2020

  • Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot man after barricade in Fayette County

    SWAT team deputies with Shelby County Sheriff's Office fatally shoot man barricaded in home in Fayette County. 

    By Yolanda Jones September 10, 2020

• August 2020

  • Weirich says no charges in police shooting of man with BB gun

    The fatal shooting of Andre Horton by a Memphis police officer in 2018 has been ruled justified by Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich.

    By Yolanda Jones August 28, 2020

• December 2019

  • Police chase from Memphis into Arkansas ends in fatal shooting

    Three Memphis police officers have been relieved of duty after a police shooting in West Memphis left one suspect dead.

    By Linda A. Moore December 31, 2019