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A Whitehaven man who called police from a motel last year to tell them he had just killed his girlfriend has been indicted by a grand jury, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A customer at a Raleigh-area fast food restaurant has been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of an employee there last December, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A South Memphis man has been indicted in the carjacking and shooting death of a 50-year-old man in 2020, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has been indicted in the death of an acquaintance last year after they had words over the correct way to load the defendant’s sawed-off shotgun, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in a 2020 drunken-driving crash involving five vehicles and six people, including a Bartlett woman who was killed and four others who were injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man set for trial this week in Criminal Court has pled guilty to raping two women and robbing a third in separate incidents committed during a two-week period in 2015, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A driver who appeared to be racing another car in traffic when he lost control and killed a pedestrian two years ago in the Parkway Village area was sentenced to four years in prison Monday, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An East Memphis man who was a fugitive for nearly four years was convicted Friday of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a restaurant server in his home in 2014, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man on the Sex Offender Registry for a rape in Ohio was convicted here Thursday of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at her aunt’s home in the Oakhaven area, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A longtime Memphis attorney was convicted Thursday of stealing a client’s $150,000 check she was awarded in the settlement of a 2014 civil case, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A nightclub patron was convicted Thursday of firing at a crowd on the Summer Avenue club’s parking lot and killing another patron who was running for cover, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Pamela Moses will not be tried a second time on the felony charge of illegally registering to vote, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said Friday.

A Fox Meadows man was convicted Wednesday of attacking his former girlfriend at her apartment where she and her two young children were living, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said.

A 19-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on vehicular homicide charges stemming from an incident last year in which her car struck a house, killing a man inside whose body was not discovered until some four hours later, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis motorist has been indicted on vehicular homicide, drunken driving and other charges stemming from a two-vehicle crash in 2020 that killed the other driver, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Denorius Jevondrick Butler, 27, and Tyler Tee Malek Wilson, 23, have been indicted in the shooting death of Maurice Walker following a shoot-out in Northaven, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 60-year-old man has been indicted in the 2020 slaying of a Memphis couple who were killed in their driveway as they were preparing to take their son to court to testify against a man who shot him earlier that year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A car burglar who got into a gunfight with the vehicle’s owner has been convicted of attempted murder, burglary of a motor vehicle and other felony counts, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis teen pled guilty Tuesday to carjacking a woman at a service station on Lamar in 2018 and robbing a teacher three days later as she arrived for school, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Raleigh man convicted last month of shooting his former girlfriend in the head after confronting her in a parking lot where he left her to die was sentenced Tuesday to 56 years in prison, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.