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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County mother convicted of killing four of her children, is asking for a new trial. Shanynthia Gardner claims the evidence presented at her trial was insufficient to support the guilty verdict. Gardner says she should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 2016 stabbing deaths of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shanynthia Gardner, who was convicted of killing her four children five years ago, was sentenced to life with parole on Tuesday. Click here to read the original post. Gardner was sentenced to a total of 51 years, which must be served before she is eligible for parole. She was sentenced to life […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In a bench ruling Tuesday, Shanynthia Gardner was found guilty on multiple charges relating to the murder of four of her children in 2016, rejecting her insanity defense. Criminal Court Judge James Lammey Jr. said that Gardner, now 34, was able appreciate the culpability of her actions when she stabbed to death […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A doctor who evaluated a Memphis mother accused of stabbing her four young children to death in 2016 testified Thursday that Shanynthia Gardner suffered from “severe mental illness.” In at times tense testimony today in day three of Shanynthia Gardner’s murder trial, clinical psychologists testified they did not believe Gardner comprehended what […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County mother accused of killing her four children was scheduled to go to trial Monday. However, that trial was reset until Dec. 14. Shanynthia Gardner, 34, will be tried on several charges including first degree murder and aggravated child abuse. This attack happened in 2016, and it received a lot […]

Shelby County, Tenn. — Four children, six months, two, three, and 4 years old, mere babies when officers say their 29-year- old mother, Shanynthia Gardner, did the unthinkable in July 2016. She is charged with stabbing the children to death inside their apartment at Hacks Cross Road near Shelby Drive. An older fifth child survived […]

The mother accused of murdering four of her five children last year may spend time in a mental institution instead of prison.

Gardner is expected to be back in court July 26.

“It’s tragic. It’s tragic, and all you can do is pray for them,” said April Hubbard, a friend of the family

“What we’re trying to do here is let them know we love you, we support you, anything else we can do to be here for you we are,” said Hall

The Tennessee Department of Child Services has confirmed there was no prior history with the Gardner family