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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Filling the top spot at the Memphis Police Department is now pushed back as a new candidate is in the running. Turns out Durham Police Chief Cerelyn Davis had been on the short list before, but asked to be taken off and then be put back on. “It was for personal reasons […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man is charged with attempted murder after he allegedly shot at a car while driving on I-40. According to reports, on March 17, the victim told Memphis Police that he was driving eastbound on I-40 when the driver of a station wagon pointed a black handgun out of his window. The […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Multiple people are dead or injured after nearly a dozen shootings in the Little Rock area, police say. The Arkansas State Police, the Little Rock Police Department and the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office are reportedly investigating 11 shootings that have happened over the past day. According to the Arkansas State Police, three […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police Director Mike Rallings shared grim numbers to the city council on Tuesday. Murders are up 50% this year compared to last year. So far this year, there have been 220 murders in Memphis. The city’s 247 homicides, a slightly different statistic than murder, is a record. Related: ‘Grim milestone’: Memphis […]

A Memphis man shot at a couple on the interstate while he had three children riding in his own car, police say.

BOWDOIN, Maine (AP) — A man confessed to killing four people, including his parents, and then firing on motorists on a busy interstate highway, just days after being released from prison, police said Wednesday. Mike Sauschuck, commissioner of the Maine Department of Public Safety, called the shootings of four people at a home in Bowdoin […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man is charged with attempted murder and child endangerment after police say he shot at a couple on the interstate while he had three children riding in his own car. Saturday, a couple told police they were driving on I-240 near South Parkway when the driver of a silver SUV […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has died after a shooting on Interstate 40 in West Memphis. Arkansas State Police say 21-year-old Yasmon Lewis was shot by a passing driver on I-40 near Mound City Road around 10:30 p.m. Monday night. He later died from his injuries at a Memphis hospital, police say. It is believed […]

A former Maryland official has died after an agent-involved shooting in West Knoxville on Monday.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are searching for a possible crime scene along I-40 after a man was reportedly shot on the interstate. Memphis Police say officers responded to a report of a shooting victim arriving at Methodist North at around 12:57 PM Thursday afternoon. The victim reportedly told police he had been shot on […]

Nurse Caitlyn Kaufman was on her way to work as an ICU nurse at Ascension Saint Thomas West when she was shot and killed on Interstate 440.