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An officer walking by the old, unused police van parked in front of the Huntsville Police Dept. saw the body of 29-year-old Christina Nance, authorities said.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Shelby County judge on Tuesday ordered the case of a Kroger security guard accused of shooting a man to death over loud music to be sent to a grand jury. Gregory Livingston is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Alvin Motley Jr. at a Kroger Fuel Center in August […]

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are among the politicians, athletes, celebrities and more featured on TIME’s 18th annual list of the 100 most influential people of the year.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More questions loom following the death of Alvin Motley Jr. after a judge’s ruling blocked the release of video in his death at a Kroger Fuel Center last month. Tuesday a Shelby County judge blocked the release of the video until at least a preliminary hearing happens. The court has set a […]

UPDATE, TUESDAY: A day after the state said it would release video of Alvin Motley’s shooting to the public Sept. 3, a judge in Memphis issued a temporary restraining order preventing its release until a judge’s ruling Sept 7. The Nashville District Attorney’s Office said in a release: “Memphis Judge Montesi has entered a temporary […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A memorial was held for Alvin Motley on Thursday. Friends and family gathered to pay their respects to the Chicago native who was killed in Memphis on August 7. Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump, local leaders Van Turner Jr. and Tam Sawyer, as well as Bishop Henry Williamson spoke on the life […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Kroger is cutting ties with a third-party security company after one of its guards was charged with shooting a man at an East Memphis fuel center. Alvin Motley was shot and killed Aug. 7 at an East Memphis Kroger Fuel Center. Police say Gregory Livingston, who was working as a security guard, […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy and civil rights attorney Ben Crump will deliver remarks during a funeral service for a Chicago man allegedly shot and killed by a security guard while visiting Memphis. Also announced Monday, The Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference appointed District Attorney General Glenn Funk of Nashville […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office is recusing itself and asking for a special prosecutor in the case of a deadly shooting at an East Memphis Kroger after an investigator was found to possibly be a witness in the suspect’s prosecution. Alvin Motley was shot and killed at an East Memphis Kroger […]

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced an arrest in a 23-year-old murder case in Haywood County.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of Alvin Motley and National Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump held a news conference Tuesday to address the shooting that claimed his life at a Kroger Fuel Center in East Memphis over the weekend.   “Yet again, another Black unarmed person was killed because he was profiled,” Crump said. “Because of the color […]