Gallery: Five years of Memphis moments
A doctor prepares to test a patient for COVID-19 at the drive-thru testing facility at Tiger Lane April 10, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Tom Lee Park officially reopened to the public after a two-year, $60 million renovation on Sept. 2, 2023. (Ziggy Mack/The Daily Memphian file)
Barb McKeever directs runners around a camera stand at the start of the 17th annual St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Dec. 1, 2018. Despite two rain delays, over 26,000 runners participated in the charity event raising over $11 million for young cancer patients. (Jim Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
KIPP Collegiate High School senior Temeico Johnson sheds tears after earning his diploma during a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, June 2, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Tigers basketball head coach Penny Hardaway is surrounded by smoke while being introduced during Memphis Madness at FedExForum Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The event kicked off Hardaway's second season as head coach. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
Deputy Chief Stephen Chandler comforts Marsha McKinney, mother of the suspect in an active shooter situation near the University of Memphis May 2, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Light, Gas and Water crews work to restore power to several downed electrical lines on Winchester Avenue near Ross Road on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, after a storm caused outages affecting just shy of 140,000 customers. It was the eighth-worst storm on record for MLGW, in terms of outages. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Mourners hold up pictures of Lisa Marie Presley during a memorial service for the fallen singer at Graceland Jan. 22, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg speaks about the broken Hernando-Desoto Bridge at an event in Downtown Memphis June 3, 2021. A crack discovered on the bridge Tuesday, May 11, shut down all lanes of Interstate 40 traffic crossing over the Mississippi River from Memphis into Arkansas. The closure lasted until July 31. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A Christ Community Health Services staff member waits for patients at a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site on Wednesday, October 20, 2020, on Lamar Ave. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Rep. Justin Pearson celebrates with friends and family outside of the Vasco A. Smith Jr. County Administration Building in Downtown Memphis April 12, 2023, after the Shelby County Commission voted to reappoint Pearson to the State House District 86 seat. Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) were expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives on April 6 for speaking out of turn during a gun-safety protest a week earlier. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Five officers indicted in Tyre Nichols’ death pleaded not guilty to murder Feb. 17, 2023, in Judge James Jones' courtroom. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
RowVaughn Wells (center) is comforted by family members at the dedication of the pavilion in Tom Lee Park, named in honor of her son, Tyre Nichols, on Feb. 10, 2023. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
A protester tries to stop oncoming interstate traffic on the I-55 bridge Jan. 27, 2023, after departing from a protest demanding justice for Tyre Nichols. Nichols was killed by Memphis Police officers on Jan. 7. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Kenyana Dixon is comforted during a rally for her brother, Tyre Nichols, at the National Civil Rights Museum on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Nichols was killed during a traffic stop with the Memphis Police Department on Jan. 7, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A Memphis police officer grabs his gun at a crime scene in Whitehaven after police finally cornered Ezekiel Kelly, who was accused of committing an hours-long shooting spree that left three dead and six wounded at multiple locations across the city Sept. 7, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Dozen of mourners from the Nutbush neighborhood gathered to pray and mourn outside of the AutoZone parking lot Sept. 8, 2022. A man was shot there during a citywide shooting spree that left three dead and six wounded the night before. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland angrily slaps the podium during a midnight press conference on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. On Wednesday evening, a gunman terrorized Memphis on a shooting spree throughout the city. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Towanna Murphy celebrates after Steve Mulroy declares victory in the Shelby County District Attorney General race at Mulroy's campaign headquarters Aug. 4, 2022. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dr. Joris M. Ray (right) and board member Michelle Robinson McKissack (left) during a special meeting on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Ray was placed on paid leave pending an investigation. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Marion, Arkansas, resident Douglas Music and his dog Pumpkin search for treasures and artifacts on a large sandbar along the Mississippi River on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Historically low water levels caused massive barge backups and uncovered shipwrecks up and down the river. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg is carried off by FedExForum security after attempting to chain herself to the basket stanchion during an NBA playoff game between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum Apr. 16, 2022. Rosenberg, 19, was arrested during an attempt to protest Timberwolves' owner Glen Taylor's treatment of chickens at his Iowa egg farm. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Young Dolph's daughter, Aria, watches her mother, Mia Jerdine, speak at a street naming ceremony honoring the slain rapper in South Memphis Dec. 15, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
A Memphis police officer hugs the family of rapper Young Dolph after he was killed outside of a store Nov. 17, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Survivors of a mass shooting at a Kroger in Collierville at the crime scene Sept. 23, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Darin Abston Jr. with the Memphis People Coalition demands an apology from a Memphis Police officer. Abston said the officer almost hit him with a squad car earlier in the week, during the eighth day of protesting over the murder of George Floyd June 3, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Artist Tylur French lies on the grass with his son Lincoln French ahead of the official unveiling of a new Memphis sculpture made by French and his art production team Youngblood Studio on Mud Island River Park on May 22, 2019. The sign was installed as part of the City of Memphis bicentennial celebrations. (Brandon Dill/The Daily Memphian file)
A Christ Community Health Center medical staff member is sprayed with Lysol while collecting nasal swabs as hundreds of Memphians line up for COVID-19 testing in Hickory Hill on July 14, 2020. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
President Donald Trump delivers a stump speech for U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s election campaign at the Landers Center in Southaven Oct. 2, 2018. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Carolyn Hardy (left) and Kevin Kane (right) walk toward Christ United Methodist Church to attend the visitation and funeral for Phil Trenary Oct. 13, 2018. (Houston Cofield/The Daily Memphian file)
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