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A Milan, Tenn., man was convicted Wednesday in a 2016 home-invasion shooting in which a man was killed and his girlfriend was shot 11 times and critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich whose office was appointed to prosecute the case.

A North Memphis man who fired a gun into a mini-van during an argument last year has been indicted for the death of a 4-year-old boy who was struck in the chest as he sat in his booster seat inside the van, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 44-year-old man has been indicted on murder and other criminal charges related to the abduction of a Mississippi man who was held for ransom and eventually killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 21-year-old man who notified police last year that he had just discovered the bodies of his father and grandmother in the home they all shared has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The third of three teen homicide defendants has pled guilty to killing one man and wounding another in 2018 after opening fire on them near Shelby Drive and Riverdale Road in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Bartlett woman has been indicted on murder charges stemming from the 2020 death of her 2-year-old son who had sustained multiple internal injuries, broken ribs and bruising, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A jury Friday deliberated just 20 minutes before finding a north Shelby County man guilty of sexually molesting a 7-year-old girl he was babysitting for family friends in 2019, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 38-year-old man who fired into a group of teens gathered near his porch in February south of Downtown has been indicted on first-degree murder and other felony counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two men have been indicted in the robbery and murder last year of a man who was taking food to his girlfriend in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser man has been indicted in the shooting death of his wife following an argument earlier this year in their home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The manager of a South Memphis rooming house was indicted Tuesday in the death of a tenant last year who was killed with a machete following an argument with the manager over parking, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man who served most of a 40-year-sentence for a 1984 conviction for kidnapping, rape and robbery is going back to prison for pulling a gun on two police officers, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A North Memphis man has been indicted in the early-morning shooting death last year of his girlfriend’s teenage son during an argument over $5, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser woman was indicted Thursday in the April death of her boyfriend whose body was found outside her apartment with a large stab wound to the chest, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Criminal Court jury on Wednesday convicted a 54-year-old man of stalking a North Memphis mother and her three juvenile daughters for more than a year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Millington man pled guilty Wednesday to attacking a health care provider with a kitchen knife in 2019 at a facility he had set fire to two years earlier, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Westwood man who drove a mortally wounded friend to a fire station for help last year was indicted Tuesday for the man’s death, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Texas man who was stopped on I-40 for a traffic violation Tuesday is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found more than eight pounds of cocaine hidden in a speaker box in the back of his SUV, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man was indicted Tuesday in the death of an acquaintance who was shot repeatedly after the two had words in February outside a convenience store in the Northaven area of Shelby County, said Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis teenager has been indicted in the shooting death and attempted robbery of a man last year at a Parkway Village service station, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.