Gun violence strategies working, despite mass shooting
Six people were shot during a Memphis Allies meeting Wednesday, April 9 at a business park in the 4000 block of South Mendenhall in Hickory Hill. (Aarron Fleming/The Daily Memphian)
More questions than answers remain following a Wednesday, April 9, shooting in Hickory Hill that left five people injured and one dead.
The shooting occurred at a meeting of Memphis Allies, a Youth Villages program aiming to reduce gun violence in the city.
But Youth Villages has said little publicly about the shooting, and Memphis police have not identified a suspect.
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Aarron Fleming
Aarron Fleming covers Memphis and Shelby County’s court system and is a member of The Daily Memphian’s public safety reporting team. He formerly covered education and earned his B.A. in journalism from the University of Memphis.
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