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A 35-year-old man was convicted Thursday of shooting another man to death in 2018 after they had words in the lobby of a motel on America Way, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office will seek to have a 15-year-old suspect tried as an adult in Monday’s carjacking and murder of Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, DA Amy Weirich said Thursday.

A motorist who struck and killed a pedestrian in 2020 on Park Avenue in Orange Mound has been indicted on criminal charges including drunken driving, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Whitehaven man has been indicted in the January death of a woman whose body was found underneath his unoccupied pickup truck parked at a strip mall on Winchester Road near South Mendenhall, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 25-year-old man pled guilty today in the 2017 shooting death of a woman in the kitchen of her residence in Harbor Town on Mud Island, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Cordova man was convicted on all counts Friday in the 2018 shooting deaths and robberies of two acquaintances whose bodies were found in the front seat of a car in Fletcher Creek Park, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Raleigh man has been indicted in the fatal shooting of a teen acquaintance last year during an argument in the parking lot of a motel on Old Austin Peay Highway, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted in the shooting death of an acquaintance last year in a Whitehaven motel room, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Collierville man convicted in the 2010 shooting death of former Memphis NBA star Lorenzen Wright was sentenced Friday to life in prison, plus 25 years for related convictions, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the fatal shooting last year of another customer at a Millington restaurant where they had been involved in an altercation earlier in the evening, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis fugitive charged in the 2020 shootings of four people in a car in East Memphis has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder and other felony counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man convicted in a Berclair-area home-invasion attack that included six victims and 22 felony offenses was sentenced Friday to more than 100 years in prison, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two cousins were convicted Friday in the 2018 shooting death of a 27-year-old man following an argument in outside of a North Memphis convenience store, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A North Memphis man has been indicted in the Christmas Eve shooting death of an apartment resident and the theft of his car which later was found wrecked a mile from the suspect’s home, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 26-year-old man who was involved in a violent altercation last fall with other patrons of a Hickory Hill nightclub has been indicted in the death of one man and the critical wounding of another, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis woman is the first person in Shelby County to have criminal convictions expunged because they were related to her status as a victim of human trafficking, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man who served part of a six-year sentence for a fatal shooting in 2016 has been indicted in the April killing of a man at a motel in southeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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.