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The biological father of a young woman was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting her over a three-year period beginning when she was 13 years old, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted on aggravated vehicular homicide, reckless driving, and drunken driving stemming from a crash in March that killed a Memphis police officer who had just gotten off duty, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 62-year-old man was convicted Thursday of raping his teenage step-daughter repeatedly over a five-year period during which time he fathered her child, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A repeat sex offender convicted earlier this year in the 2006 rape of a woman near Downtown has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no possibility for parole, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The boyfriend of a young mother who was found shot to death this summer in a South Memphis rooming house has been indicted by a grand jury, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 24-year-old man pled guilty Tuesday for his role in the attempted aggravated robbery and shooting death of a man whose body was found at a Parkway Village intersection in 2016, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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.