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From Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich: On Saturday afternoon June 27, 1987, a 20-year-old man named Pervis Payne attacked a mother and her two young children in their Millington apartment. Proof would show that Payne killed 28-year-old Charisse Christopher, who had more than 80 knife wounds, and her 2-year-old daughter Lacie, who also was stabbed to death.

A 59-year-old man who was chased down by a security officer after he and another suspect stole a diamond ring from a jewelry store in 2019 was convicted Wednesday of felony theft and other criminal charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A motorist who admitted drinking on his birthday was convicted Wednesday on 11 criminal charges stemming from a four-vehicle accident in 2018 that critically injured one of his two sons in the backseat of his car, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A North Memphis man has been convicted on 22 felony counts, including rape and robbery, stemming from a 2011 home-invasion attack on six people in a Berclair-area residence, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Medicaid Fraud Control Division has resulted in the arrest of a Memphis woman on a charge of abusing a vulnerable adult in her care.

A news conference is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday Nov. 10 at 600 Jefferson Ave. – Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach - to announce three upcoming events regarding efforts to curb gun violence in the community.

A Memphis woman who pled guilty in 2015 to two felony offenses was found guilty this week of illegally registering to vote in 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury took just 17 minutes Thursday to convict a Parkway Village woman of killing her husband whose body was found in a plastic tub hidden in a locked crawl space in the attic of their home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Three men have been indicted on multiple felony counts related to an attempted robbery last November near the airport that resulted in gunfire that left two men dead and three others critically wounded, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A motorist who crashed while driving at a high of speed earlier this year on I-240 Midtown now faces multiple felony counts for the incident that killed two passengers, including his 2-year-old son, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Shelby County man has been indicted on murder, drug possession and other felony charges related to the shooting death earlier this year of another man, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Whitehaven man whose AR-15 style rifle discharged as he was handing it to a friend barrel first has been indicted on felony homicide charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi teen has been indicted on murder, robbery and other felony charges in the shooting death of an acquaintance earlier this year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 53-year-old former employee of a Memphis church has been indicted for allegedly sexually molesting two teenage boys in separate incidents at the church, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 19-year-old woman has been indicted on reckless vehicular homicide charges related to an incident last year in which her car struck a motorcycle and ran over its operator, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 58-year-old man with a history of sex offenses was sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole Friday for the rape of a woman at a drive-in where he had taken her on their first date in 2003, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 28-year-old construction worker has been indicted on first-degree murder charges stemming from the shooting of his team leader last year at a Cordova worksite, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 25-year-old man has been indicted in the shooting death of his father last year in their South Memphis home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury has indicted a Frayser man in the stabbing death of his mother and the critical wounding of his stepfather during an argument earlier this year in their home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich this week received the McCutchen Award, the highest leadership award given by the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC).