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A 20-year-old man has been indicted in the death of an estranged friend who identified him as the shooter as the victim was dying outside his Cordova apartment last year, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A young man and woman have been indicted in a drive-by shooting last Fourth of July in North Memphis in which a 7-year-old boy was killed and two women were critically injured, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 29-year-old man has been indicted in a drive-by shooting last year in North Memphis in which two men in a parked car were killed by multiple gunshots, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An employee at a South Memphis discount store has been indicted on murder charges after following a suspected shoplifter out of the store last summer and shooting him in the parking lot, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A woman who returned to a motel to confront another woman over an earlier dispute pled guilty this week to second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

An Arizona woman who was stopped on I-40 on a traffic violation earlier this week is facing drug-trafficking charges after officers found 20 pounds of fentanyl hidden in two fire extinguishers inside her vehicle, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis driver was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges including vehicular homicide and drunken driving related to a two-vehicle crash in East Memphis that killed one person and injured two others, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man has pled guilty in a shooting at a Whitehaven motel in which he killed a woman bystander and wounded a man who had tried to intervene in an argument, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday in the shooting death of a Horn Lake man last year in a Whitehaven motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who has been preying on women for more than a decade was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for luring a University of Memphis freshman from her dorm and raping her at a motel, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Memphis man was indicted Thursday on several felony counts, including the shooting death of an acquaintance and the critical wounding of a woman who was hit in the face by a stray bullet while in her kitchen baking a birthday cake, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two Memphis men – Justin Johnson and Cornelius Smith - indicted in the November shooting death of local rapper Young Dolph are scheduled to be arraigned today in Criminal Court, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A man who attacked his former girlfriend and a male friend at her home and then returned five hours later to kill them both has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A grand jury Tuesday indicted a Memphis man on first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of local rapper Young Dolph in November, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A Shelby County woman has been indicted on criminal charges in the death of an 11-year-old girl who was accidentally shot at a birthday party last summer with a handgun her friends found in a kitchen drawer, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

Two alleged drug dealers have been indicted on murder charges in unrelated death-by-distribution cases in which three people died from fentanyl overdoses, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

The mother of four young children found stabbed to death in 2016 in their southeast Shelby County apartment was found guilty Wednesday by a judge who rejected her defense of insanity, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison in the shooting death of a woman during an altercation at a South Memphis nightspot in 2018, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A family evening of karaoke and drinking in September ended in an argument and gunfire resulting in the death of a 41-year-old man and now murder charges against his wife, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

A 35-year-old man was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder and other felony counts related to a 2014 home-invasion in which the homeowner was shot to death and his girlfriend was wounded, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.