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Two men have been indicted on first-degree murder and dozens of other criminal charges in connection with the April shooting death of a 6-year-old boy in Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

“Newly discovered” blood-stained bedding that defense attorneys claim could prove the innocence of death-row inmate Pervis Payne with DNA testing is actually from a separate murder case that occurred nine years after his 1988 conviction for the brutal stabbings of a Millington mother and her two young children, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Local leaders will participate in a Red Sand Project ceremony at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at 1290 Lamar at Cleveland to commemorate World Day Against Trafficking in Persons.

Longtime police detective and District Attorney’s Office criminal investigator W.D. Merritt passed away Sunday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich. He was 56.

Four men were indicted Thursday on multiple felony counts in a case involving the sexual abuse of two young children and a baby that they performed and recorded on cellphone videos, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 37-year-old man was indicted Tuesday in a December shooting at a convenience store in the Hickory Hill area in which another man was killed and his car was stolen, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Federal marshals acted within the law in the shooting death last year of an armed Memphis man they were trying to arrest on felony assault warrants, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man on parole for a 1994 murder was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the abduction and rape of a young woman in 2015, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Shelby County man has been indicted in the stabbing deaths of his former girlfriend and their 5-month-old son who were found in their burning house last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova High School teacher has been indicted for allegedly having sexual contact with two senior students, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man and a teenage girl were indicted Wednesday on first-degree murder and other charges in an alleged scheme in which the victim was lured to a home where he was robbed and shot, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 35-year-old man was indicted Wednesday in a machete attack earlier this year in which his teenage daughter was killed and his wife was critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis attorney who pled guilty to two felony counts of stealing client funds has been sentenced to 15 years on Community Corrections and was ordered to make restitution of nearly a half million dollars, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 55-year-old man linked by his DNA to a pair of rape attacks that occurred more than 30 years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison without the possibility for parole, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 70-year-old man whose left-behind dentures linked him to a 2001 rape has now been indicted on the murders of two women whose bodies were found a month later in remote area of Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich today unveiled plans for a Community Justice Program aimed at giving communities a larger and more active role in the criminal justice process.

A 44-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison without parole for raping two young girls over a period of years, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who fired at a fleeing carjacking suspect in Parkway Village and hit the suspect’s female companion has been indicted on second-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Memphis man has been indicted in the death of his girlfriend who was found wounded in a bathtub and died nearly a year later, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder and other charges related to a shooting last December outside of a lounge on Summer Avenue, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.