MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An explosion of gunfire over the weekend caused a spike in the number of people murdered in Memphis.
Sixty-four people have been killed so far in the Bluff City in 2016, and many of the murderers are still out there on the streets.
Eleven people were shot and three people are dead in five separate shooting from over the weekend.
“I don’t know what to say. I’m still processing all of this myself,” Tina Brewer told WREG.
Brewer spoke through the bullet holes left in her front door.
Her 18-year-old daughter, Tierney Reid, was murdered late Sunday night at a home on Mallard Nest Cove on Southeast Memphis.
“Her personality. She was a real sweet girl. She’s friends with everybody. Good or bad,” Brewer said.
Police said the gunman ran up on Reid and her older sister, Melanie, when they got home.
The man fired shots that hit both sisters.
“I thought Melanie was dead and Tierney was still talking to me so I thought she was okay. But it turned out Melanie was okay and Tierney died at the end of the hallway,” Brewer recalled.
Police are still searching for the bad guy — not only in this case but in several shootings from over the weekend.
Four people were shot at a gas station on Mt. Moriah Road, a security guard shot three people at a bar on Winchester Road, a man was found dead in a car on East Dempster and an off-duty cop killed a man after an altercation on Getwell Road.
“I don’t — I be scared to let him go out and play. Like I just keep him in the house or I take him somewhere else,” Iesha Bailey, who lives in Hickory Hill, said.
Parents in Memphis are worried about their children’s safety as more and more people are killed.
“I got to get out of Memphis. If I get out of Memphis, it would be the best thing to happen to me, Tavious said.
Too many parents are asking questions like Brewer as they begin planning for funerals.
“Who would do something like this?”
If you have any information leading to an arrest in the weekend violence, call crime stoppers at 901-528-CASH.
