Woman Indicted in Death of Boyfriend

Sept. 24, 2020 – An Olive Branch woman has been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of her boyfriend in June outside a Memphis motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Defendant Patrice Austin, 40, is being held on $500,000 bond.

The incident occurred on June 29 this year at the Knights Inn in the 6000 block of Macon Road.

Austin told police she shot her boyfriend, Christopher Hinds, 41, when he tried to run over her with in the parking lot during an argument. Surveillance video, however, did not support her account of self-defense, investigators said.

The case is being handled by Asst. Dist. Atty. Justin Prescott of the District Attorney’s Domestic Violence Unit which handles cases of domestic assault and homicide committed by intimate partners. Cases are handled in General Sessions Court Division 10 and in Criminal Court Division 5.