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Two cousins convicted earlier this year in the 2018 shooting death of a 27-year-old man they confronted outside of a North Memphis convenience store were given lengthy prison sentences Friday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

No criminal charges will be filed against law enforcement officers involved in three separate fatal shooting incidents of fleeing felons that occurred last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Orange Mound man who told police he walked to the home of an acquaintance in April and stabbed him for allegedly stealing his car was indicted Thursday on a count of first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Fox Meadows man was convicted Friday of raping an 81-year-old woman who lived in the same area and who had previously hired him to do yardwork and other chores, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 26-year-old man was convicted Friday in a 2017 robbery and shooting at a South Memphis home where one man was killed and his father was critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 29-year-old man was convicted Friday of robbing a woman of cash and cell phones in his North Shelby County home and then shooting her in the foot, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man who arranged a date with two women on line and then shot them both was convicted Friday on two counts of first-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 28-year-old man convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting a Frayser woman as she was returning home from work in 2017 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Bartlett man who fatally stabbed a woman he had dated and her teenage son after breaking into their Scenic Hills home two weeks ago has been indicted on murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 22-year-old man captured on surveillance video shooting into another vehicle at an intersection in Whitehaven has been indicted in the death of a young man and the wounding of his aunt, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man identified as the person who dropped off his critically wounded ex-girlfriend at a hospital emergency room last summer and drove away with their baby son in the car was indicted Tuesday in her death, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Criminal Court jury deliberated about an hour Sunday before convicting a 25-year-old man in the stabbing death of his ex-girlfriend whose body he left on a North Memphis street corner in 2020, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Amy Weirich.

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.