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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.

A 32-year-old man with a history of criminal conduct pled guilty Wednesday to three separate felonies in which two of the victims were former girlfriends and the third victim was the one-year-old son of another girlfriend, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A South Memphis man pled guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing the 9-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend while babysitting the child in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man charged in a shooting in 2019 that left the victim paralyzed pled guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to 23 years in prison, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury Tuesday returned first-degree murder and other felony indictments against a Memphis man related to a home-invasion robbery and shooting that claimed the life of a Rhodes College student last October, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Whitehaven man was indicted Thursday in the death of a customer who was shot nearly a dozen times outside a tire shop last year on Knight Arnold Road near Getwell Road, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 34-year-old man has been indicted in the shooting deaths last year of a couple with whom he had been living in their Berclair-area home in northeast Memphis, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Whitehaven man who reported that he discovered his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son face down in a bathtub in an apparent drowning has been convicted of causing the boy’s death from a beating, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An argument between two women that escalated into a fight last year ended abruptly when their boyfriends intervened and exchanged gunfire, leaving one of the boyfriends dead, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 59-year-old man described as a major heroin supplier for a Memphis street gang has been convicted on two criminal conspiracy counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Illinois woman who was stopped on I-40 for a traffic violation Thursday is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found cocaine hidden in her rental car.

A Madison County traffic stop led West Tennessee Drug Task Force Agents to serve a search warrant on a home in Humboldt early Sunday morning where they found assorted illegal drugs, including 30 pounds of methamphetamine.

A 27-year-old Memphis man was indicted on criminal charges Thursday stemming from a two-car crash last year in North Memphis in which the driver of the other vehicle was killed, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The mother of four young children who she stabbed to death in 2016 in their southeast Shelby County apartment was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.