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A repeat sex offender was convicted Thursday in the rape of a woman who was attacked in her apartment near Downtown in 2006, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 29, 2021 – A Cordova man has been indicted on second-degree murder charges related to a roadside dispute earlier this year on Hacks Cross Road which left another man dead, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 29, 2021 – A breakdown of violent offenses committed this year by juvenile defendants includes four murders, six sexual assaults of minor victims and 19 incidents involving the threat or use of a deadly weapon, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Wednesday.

Sept. 24, 2021 – A former Memphis police sergeant pled guilty Thursday to one count of official misconduct stemming from acts related to his employment in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 24, 2021 – A previous sex offender was convicted Thursday of raping a 24-year-old woman at a drive-in where he had taken her on their first date in 2003, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 23, 2021 - A convicted gunman sentenced last month to life in prison without parole for killing a restaurant patron in 2016 was sentenced Thursday to an additional 62 years for crimes committed in the same Downtown crime spree that included the death of a Memphis police officer, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 23, 2021 – A man who shot and critically wounded his boss hours after being fired from his job last year was convicted Wednesday of attempted first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 22, 2021 – A 21-year-old man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death of a woman whose body was found this summer in a motel room on Jackson Avenue, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 22, 2021 – A Whitehaven man was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death this summer of a longtime friend whose body was found in the driver’s seat of his car at a Parkway Village motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Sept. 17, 2021 – A Parkway Village man was convicted Friday of killing one person, wounding another and trying to kill a third in a 2018 domestic incident at an apartment complex at Winchester Road and Clearbrook Street, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Five law enforcement officers who returned fire and killed a suspect wanted for attempted murder in 2019 acted with legal justification, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man was indicted Thursday in the shootings of two men earlier this year at a home-recording studio where he previously had recorded a song with one of the victims, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Collierville man has been indicted in the death of his father following an argument between the two that turned physical earlier this year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser-area man has been indicted on criminally negligent homicide and other charges for his role in the shooting death of his girlfriend’s one-year-old son who was left in a car with another child and the man’s loaded handgun, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A motorist with a prior DUI conviction has been indicted in an alcohol-related crash that killed one person and injured two others, including a 5-year-old boy, last year in southwest Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Criminal Court jury convicted a 26-year-old man Tuesday of killing two people, including a Memphis police officer, and wounding another in unprovoked attacks in 2016 in three separate areas of Downtown, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Parkway Village man was convicted Friday in the 2017 murder of his wife whose body was discovered in the trunk of her repossessed car on the lot of a towing company in Horn Lake, Miss., said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 27-year-old Memphis man pled guilty Friday to sexually assaulting a teen for nearly two weeks last year after she walked away from a treatment facility, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi man has been indicted in the shooting death of his stepfather earlier this year in Memphis following a longstanding dispute, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A driver who appeared to be racing another car in traffic when he lost control and killed a pedestrian last year in the Parkway Village area has been indicted on vehicular homicide charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.