New documents and witnesses announced in Nichols' civil trial will aim to show use-of-force culture in MPD.
For more than a decade, the City of Memphis has tried to quell gun violence by talking to potential victims or perpetrators before they make life-altering choices.
The city has quietly reorganized its gun violence intervention program, part of a longer-term effort to prevent shootings before they happen.
The two were both shot April 9, 2025, during a meeting of Youth Village’s SWITCH program in Hickory Hill.
Whether the former Memphis police officers accused of killing Tyre Nichols will be retried remains unclear. But a separate request from their attorneys has been dismissed by the U.S. Sixth Circuit.
The Memphis rapper and eight others, including his father, were arrested after the FBI raided his Cordova home.
Three were wounded, two critically, after gunfire erupted in Downtown Memphis early Saturday morning, police said.
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“That tells me you don’t like your freedom and you want to be in custody until your case is over and I will absolutely accommodate that request,” the judge said.
FBI agents raided a Memphis home Wednesday morning connected to rapper Pooh Shiesty, according to a spokesperson for the bureau.
The suit says Sheriff Floyd Bonner Jr. and Mayor Lee Harris “have engaged in an extraordinary public campaign of mutual finger-pointing ... while people continue to die.”
The two deputies were off-duty when they allegedly assaulted a man working on a car.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young announced that the city will investigate police actions at a No Kings march in Downtown Memphis.
The misdemeanor incident happened after Arlington Mayor Mike Wissman was shopping for clothes.
Danell Maxwell is accused of wounding Memphis police Oscar Torres-Molina.
Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Ray Lepone sentenced Julio Hernandez, 21, to five years in prison for vehicular homicide.
The incident happened in July 2023, when Hernandez, behind the wheel of a stolen car, blew through the red light going an estimated 88 mph.
“I heard three to four. And then another burst and then another. It was probably about 15-20 shots. It was a lot. And everybody was running,” said a resident.
Charges were dropped for a 14-year-old accused of aggravated rape at St. George’s Independent School.
“He has a lot of depression, insomnia, he’s extremely sad and he’s lost a lot of weight in the two weeks that I hadn’t seen him,” State Rep. Gabby Salinas said about a local high schooler who has been detained by ICE for more than a month.
The city is still searching for a space where teenagers, once picked up by MPD, would spend time waiting for their parents.
As President Donald Trump touts the Memphis Safe Task Force as proof that tough immigration policies and aggressive enforcement are restoring “law and order,” Mayor Paul Young argues Memphis’ long-term safety depends more on tackling poverty, disinvestment and other root causes.
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Memphis Mayor Paul Young says the city is moving in the right direction on crime, but didn’t credit President Donald Trump or the Memphis Safe Task Force for that.
A violent Friday night Downtown stokes the ongoing debate about the Memphis Safe Task Force’s effectiveness.
The state senators have filed competing bills to restore a Criminal Court division to Memphis.
Two people were shot less than an hour apart Downtown Friday, March 20, according to the Memphis Police Department.
Memphis was responsible for nearly one-third of gun violence’s economic toll on Tennessee in 2023, new data shows.