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A 39-year-old man was convicted Thursday of voluntary manslaughter in the 2019 death of a friend who was found strangled with a string of Christmas lights, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Munford man has been indicted on two counts of vehicular homicide involving intoxication and recklessness in a crash last year that claimed the lives of a Millington couple, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova woman has been indicted on multiple counts of felony animal abuse stemming from the 2019 discovery of numerous unhealthy cats living in unsanitary conditions in her home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A news conference will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hamilton High School to announce the fourth Unity Walk Against Gun Violence scheduled for Saturday, June 12, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 28-year-old Memphis man pled guilty Monday in the 2013 shooting and slashing murder of a security guard at a North Memphis salvage yard, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A night clerk at a convenience store near Arlington was indicted Thursday on a count of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Cordova man who had been banned from the premises, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A convicted felon just released from prison has pled guilty to attacking and robbing a disabled man who was carjacked and driven around the city for more than an hour in 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova man has been indicted on two counts of vehicular homicide involving intoxication related to a two-car crash last year in Southwest Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis police officer accused of killing a man in the back of his squad car and disposing of the body earlier this year has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi truck driver was indicted Thursday on reckless vehicular homicide charges related to an interstate crash last summer that killed a 5-year-old girl and injured three other people, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Collierville man has been indicted on vehicular homicide charges stemming from a one-vehicle crash last summer near Eads in which his front-seat passenger was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Three men have been indicted on multiple felony charges stemming from a shootout during a drug deal last year in Arlington that left one man dead and three wounded, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two Memphis police officers were legally justified when they shot and killed a Frayser man who pointed a handgun at one of them from close range and refused their commands to drop the weapon, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Thursday.

The annual recognition luncheon of the West Tennessee Drug Task Force (WTDTF) will be held Friday at Bellevue Baptist Church at 2000 Appling Road in Cordova.

A 19-year-old man has been indicted in the shooting death of a West Memphis teen and the wounding of his friend who had travelled to Memphis hoping to purchase marijuana, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 37-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder charges for alleging shooting at several people and killing an innocent bystander – a woman holding her grandson - last year in Frayser, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An ongoing argument that spanned some 12 hours and two separate locations last fall has led to murder charges for a man alleged to have ended it with early-morning gunfire, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted on felony murder charges in the death of a service station clerk during an attempted robbery last year in which gunfire was exchanged, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A South Memphis man charged in the car-to-car shooting death of an acquaintance last October has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 19-year-old man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly shooting into a crowd last summer in a Downtown parking lot, killing one teen and wounding another, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.