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  • 1 week ago | fox13memphis.com | Jack Bilyeu

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The US Marshals Services announced the arrests of two people believed to be responsible for the murders of a pair of Booker T. Washington students just yards away from the school campus. RELATED: Two high school students killed in South Memphis shooting, MSCS saysDamanuel Jackson and Mario Simmons each face two counts of first-degree murder. They were captured at a home in Murfreesboro. “They are a menace to society. They don’t value life.

  • 1 week ago | fox13memphis.com | Jack Bilyeu

    HARTSVILLE, Tenn. - District Attorney Jason Lawson of Tennessee’s Fifteenth Judicial District announced 12 inmates have been charged for their role in a riot at the state’s largest prison earlier in June. Their charges include aggravated riot, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping and more. Lawson said he could not yet release the identities of those charged. The riot happened at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville, Tennessee.

  • 1 week ago | fox13memphis.com | Jack Bilyeu

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis police said they found homemade bombs during a drug search at a home in East Memphis. It happened Thursday morning on Spottswood Avenue, just off the University of Memphis campus. “That’s a little scary,” Audie Shepard, who lives nearby, said. Neighbors told FOX13 they were shocked when they saw squad cars pull into their usually-quiet neighborhood Thursday morning. According to MPD, the Organized Crime Unit’s Major Violators Unit was serving a drug warrant at a house.

  • 2 weeks ago | fox13memphis.com | Jack Bilyeu

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Memphis Police are looking for two suspects in the fatal shooting of a local business owner at his store. Loved ones identified the victim as Shaton Cobb, owner of MTA auto shop on Winchester Road. “There were two victims on the scene,” Lt. Marcus Frierson of the Memphis Police Department said. “One was pronounced deceased on the scene.

  • 2 weeks ago | fox13memphis.com | Jack Bilyeu

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A survivor of the mass shooting at the Memphis Allies anti-violence meeting is speaking out. The shooting happened in early April at an officer park in Hickory Hill. It killed one person and sent five others to the hospital. More than two months later, one person is charged in connection to the crime and investigators continue to search for the other suspects. “It was complete chaos,” Dwaine Coleman, who was at the meeting, said.

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