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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. — It’s been a week since a man vIsiting Memphis from Chicago was shot dead at an East Memphis Kroger Fuel Center over loud music. Police say an on-duty security guard is the person behind bars charged with the murder.  On Saturday, demonstrators went back to where the deadly attack happened, and they […]

Multiple units from Metro Police are on the scene of a shooting investigation at the Kroger on Monroe Street at Rosa L. Parks Blvd. in Germantown.

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 […]

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 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A security guard accused of shooting a man to death in a Kroger parking lot after an argument over loud music is a former police officer from Horn Lake, Mississippi, authorities there confirmed. Gregory Livingston was a former officer employed with the City of Horn Lake from August 1998 until he resigned […]

Shelby County deputies are investigating after a nine-year-old child was shot and wounded Sunday evening.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Police are investigating a deadly shooting Saturday near an East Memphis Kroger. Officers responded to the Kroger in the 6600 block of Poplar Avenue around 7. MPD said one man was shot and killed at the Kroger Fuel Center. The victim was identified in police documents as Alvin Motley. WREG was […]

The Cordova home of Chauncy Black – a young Memphian who at one point won the hearts of Memphians – was closed as a nuisance after an excessive number of calls to authorities. One of those calls was for a murder.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Cordova house was closed for being a public nuisance Thursday after deputies responded to 265 calls there in the past two years, Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich said. Two residents of 6910 Lagrange Circle South – brothers Chauncy and Timothy Black – were charged with second-degree murder stemming from […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Cordova restaurant owner was shot three times Wednesday night while trying to take down the license plate of a suspected truck burglar. The owner of Villa Castrioti on Germantown Parkway told Memphis Police he was outside his restaurant taking a smoke break with a customer at around 9:30 p.m. That’s when […]