Man dies in Midtown after being detained by MPD
Crime scene tape ropes off a Memphis Police Department squad car at a Midtown apartment complex Aug. 11. A man was detained by police shortly after noon and placed in the blue squad car in front of the white one. He was later removed from the scene in an ambulance. (Samuel Hardiman/The Daily Memphian)
A heavy police presence continued to surround an apartment complex near Madison Avenue and Auburndale Street Friday evening after Memphis police officers detained an unidentified man earlier in the day.
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Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise and investigative reporter who focuses on local government and politics. He began his journalism career at the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he covered business and, later, K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Memphis Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on Elon Musk’s xAI, regional energy needs and how Memphis and Shelby County government spend taxpayer dollars.
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