City shaken by week of violence seeks comfort and answers
Balloons and stuffed animals sit as a memorial to Eliza Fletcher, the Memphis woman who was kidnapped and killed while on her morning run. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Leaders of the local Justice and Safety Alliance talked about the week of violence that has shaken the city on “Behind The Headlines.”
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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