News

A Collierville man was convicted Monday in the 2010 shooting death of former Memphis NBA star Lorenzen Wright in a murder conspiracy set in motion by the victim’s former wife, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 56-year-old man has pled guilty to the 2020 stabbing death of his former girlfriend whose body was found in her Frayser apartment two days later, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A couple accused of running a large-scale identity theft scheme to steal personal information and thousands of dollars in cash from unsuspecting victims has been indicted on criminal charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 59-year-old man convicted earlier this year as a major heroin supplier for a Memphis street gang was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Criminal Court jury this week convicted a woman’s former boyfriend of raping her 11-year-old daughter in 2015 when they all lived together in a home in Orange Mound, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser man has been convicted of driving while intoxicated for the fourth time, a felony under Tennessee law, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men who were set for trial Monday entered guilty pleas in the shooting death of a 54-year-old man outside of a motel on Sycamore View two years ago, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 23-year-old man pled guilty Monday to killing one man and wounding another in 2018 after opening fire on another car near Shelby Drive and Riverdale Road in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 51-year-old woman has been indicted in the early-morning shooting death of her uncle in 2020 following a family Christmas party at his Frayser home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 28-year-old man was convicted Friday of sexually assaulting a Frayser woman as she was returning home from work in 2017, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury Thursday convicted a Raleigh man of shooting his former girlfriend in the head after confronting her in a parking lot where he left her to die, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who shot his pregnant girlfriend 17 times and kept her body in the house for nearly a week was convicted Friday on two counts of first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Raleigh man has been indicted on murder and other felony counts stemming from a shooting last summer near an auto parts store that ended with him shooting himself in the foot and leaving his cell phone behind, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 56-year-old man has been indicted on first-degree murder charges related to the shooting of an acquaintance during an argument last year outside a convenience store in the Parkway Village area, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis teen has been indicted in the shooting death of a 41-year-old woman as she was standing outside a corner store in southwest Memphis in 2020, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury Friday convicted a 50-year-old man of shooting into a North Memphis apartment where his former girlfriend, her sister-in-law and their three children were inside, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova man has pled guilty in a 2019 neighborhood shooting death in which the victim was found clutching a piece of paper with a license tag number that helped lead to the suspect, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 20-year-old man has been indicted on second-degree murder charges in the shooting of a motorist last year who had followed him to his mother’s home in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A South Memphis man has been indicted in the death of his best friend last year after he initially told others that the friend accidentally shot himself, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis teen was indicted Tuesday on murder and other felony charges related to the shooting death of a car passenger last year on Beale Street, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.