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A 34-year-old man was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting the 6-year-old daughter of his girlfriend at the residence they shared in the Oakhaven area near the airport, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury took less than an hour Wednesday to convict a man of raping a 50-year-old woman outside an apartment in 2019 in South Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Westwood-area man has been indicted in the shooting death last year of a 12-year-old boy and the critical wounding of another person who was shot in the back, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An apartment resident who fired at several young car burglars earlier this year has been indicted on counts of voluntary manslaughter and convicted felon with a handgun, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Texas woman who was stopped on I-40 on a traffic violation early Wednesday is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found a lethal mix of heroin and fentanyl hidden in a battery inside her vehicle.

A 59-year-old man was convicted late Wednesday in the shooting death of a woman during an altercation at a South Memphis nightspot in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 37-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of raping a young woman in 2011 after she accepted his offer to give her a ride back to her hotel in Whitehaven, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Oct. 6, 2021 – A defendant who dropped his cellphone while running away from a man on crutches he had just robbed was convicted by a jury Tuesday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Oct. 6, 2021 – A live-in boyfriend left in charge of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old son last summer was indicted on murder charges Tuesday after the child died of severe head injuries, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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.