Ezekiel Kelly terrorized Memphis for roughly 20 hours. It took three years to reach a resolution.
Ezekiel Kelly wipes tears from his eyes after pleading guilty in court Aug. 13. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
On Sept. 7, 2022, a 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly terrorized Memphis.
It’s not an exaggeration to say most Memphians “remember where they were,” so to speak, when Kelly went on a daylong shooting spree during which he killed three people and wounded three others. His actions, some of which he livestreamed on Facebook, caused city leadership to issue a “shelter-in-place” order while law enforcement worked to capture him.
Kelly’s crime spree dealt another blow to a city already reeling from the kidnapping and killing of local teacher Eliza Fletcher just days earlier.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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