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A Mississippi man pled guilty Friday in the 2016 killing of a 29-year-old man whose body was found face down at an intersection in the Parkway Village area of southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis businessman who shot a chainsaw shoplifter after chasing him out of the store has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury Thursday convicted a Parkway Village man in a 2015 domestic violence incident in which he shot his way into an apartment, killed his former girlfriend, and threatened another woman and her four young children, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old man was convicted Wednesday in the unprovoked shooting death of a pedestrian who was crossing Mt. Moriah at Quince Road in the summer of 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted on second-degree murder charges in the shooting this summer of a man he said was stealing tools from his parked truck on Summer Avenue, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Raleigh man was convicted Wednesday in the 2017 death of a 34-year-old acquaintance who was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat of his parked car with multiple gunshot wounds, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi man was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges for allegedly shooting at a police officer who was trying to arrest him this summer for driving recklessly in the Hickory Ridge area, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Arkansas woman has been indicted in a fatal shooting this summer on South Lauderdale that stemmed from an online dispute between her sister and a 13-year-old girl whose grandmother was the victim, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man has been indicted on second-degree murder for the death of a Raleigh-area man who was shot while taking out the trash, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 19-year-old man who is serving a seven-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery now has been charged in a 2017 home-invasion homicide that occurred when he was 15 years old, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 28-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday in the shooting death earlier this year of a Parkway Village woman with whom she had argued on social media, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A public nuisance petition has been granted which bans any new leases at the Peppertree Apartments in Whitehaven where police have responded to more than 1,500 calls for service over the past 20 months, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A professional caregiver was convicted Thursday on felony neglect charges involving an elderly disabled Bartlett woman who sustained critical injuries in a fall that occurred when she was left alone by the caregiver who left her shift early, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

After some 30 years as an Assistant District Attorney, Emmett Hall has decided it’s time to retire.

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.