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A Memphis man who served nearly 20 years in prison for murder and who has pending cases for other violent offenses since his release was convicted Wednesday of trying to escape arrest on the interstate, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Frayser man was indicted Tuesday on multiple felony counts stemming from the killing of one man and critical wounding of another in a robbery last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Binghampton man was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison without parole after he admitted to sexually abusing a young girl for the past three years, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Nutbush-area man jailed on animal cruelty charges for setting fire to his dog last month saw his bond increased to $150,000 after prosecutors played a tape in court on which he threatened to shoot reporters if they come to his home again, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An East Memphis man who was a fugitive for nearly four years before he was captured and convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault was sentenced Tuesday to 37 years in prison without parole, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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

A 65-year-old man has been indicted in the shooting death last year of a woman acquaintance following an argument outside her home in the Getwell/Park area, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Whitehaven man has been indicted in the shooting death last year of his landlord who had been trying to evict him from a property for nonpayment of rent, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A residence in the Nutbush area of northeast Memphis described by neighbors as “notorious and dangerous” was closed Friday as a public nuisance because of narcotics trafficking and violent crime, including two homicides, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A southeast Memphis man has been indicted in the New Year’s Day death of his girlfriend who was found in a car crash on Walnut Grove Road after she was shot in the head, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Mississippi man pled guilty Thursday to stealing a Dodge Charger at gunpoint in 2019 after responding to the owner’s online ad offering it for sale, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

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.