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A news conference will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Prep Academy highlighting a community Unity Walk Against Gun Violence to be held Saturday in Frayser.

The former boyfriend of a Whitehaven woman has been indicted on multiple felony counts for allegedly shooting and abducting her last summer after killing a man at her home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Four men have been indicted on multiple felony charges stemming from two drive-by shootings of a South Memphis house in which an elderly woman, a 2-year-old girl and two others were critically wounded, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Five people have been indicted for the killing last year of a businessman who was found shot to death in his Arlington home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who allegedly fired into a group of card players last year in South Memphis has been indicted on a count of first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova man has been indicted on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a teen who he said was breaking into his vehicle last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 24-year-old man has been indicted in a drive-up homicide outside a Hickory Hill residence where the victim’s children were playing basketball, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old man who allegedly began shooting when an acquaintance refused to sell him a gun has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old north Shelby County man was indicted Tuesday on felony murder charges in the shooting death last November of a Millington teen, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A North Memphis man has been indicted for allegedly setting his neighbor’s car on fire and then shooting the neighbor as he came to investigate, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 19-year-old man has been indicted for allegedly shooting two Oakland, Tenn., men who responded to his online offer to sell a gun last November, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Three men have been indicted in a car-to-car shooting last year in Northaven that resulted in the death of a passenger in one vehicle, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man who beat and repeatedly stabbed his girlfriend in front of her young daughter in 2016 pled guilty to first-degree murder Tuesday and was sentenced to life in prison, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The West Tennessee Drug Task Force’s (WTDTF) interdiction team was named 2020 Team of the Year by the six-state Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) at the federal agency’s annual conference this week in Biloxi, Miss., said Task Force Director Johnie Carter.

A 27-year-old man has been indicted on murder charges stemming from the discovery of a body last summer behind a South Memphis church, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death last summer of an acquaintance following a brief altercation at a gas station on Getwell Road, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Raleigh-area man was indicted Tuesday in the death last year of an 8-year-old girl who was struck in the head by outside gunfire while standing in her kitchen with her grandmother, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Westwood-area man has been indicted in the shooting death last year of a man who had stopped to help the defendant’s girlfriend whose car had broken down, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 20-year-old man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a motorist following an early-morning dispute last summer at a gas station on Lamar near American Way, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Millington man was indicted Thursday in the death last year of a truck driver who was found shot in the cab of his tractor-trailer in Eads, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.