Updated: Jan. 31, 2023 at 2:15 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Vice President Kamala Harris will be traveling to Memphis to attend the funeral of Tyre Nichols Wednesday morning, NBC reporter Priscilla Thompson confirmed Tuesday.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 6:45 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Bria Bolden
Five Memphis police officers have been terminated following the completion of an administrative investigation into the death of Tyre Nichols.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 12:58 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Debra Worley
A 40-year-old woman is facing charges after being accused of attacking her 97-year-old grandmother, according to police.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2023 at 9:35 AM CST
|By Myracle Evans, Stephanie Douglas and Lydian Kennin
State Senator London Lamar proposed an approach to tackling Tennessee’s backlog of untested rape kits.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 7:18 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) have been called in to investigate a shooting at the Academy Sports on New Byhalia Road.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 4:30 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
She allegedly told police her boyfriend was fatally shot after they lured a drug dealer with plans to rob him at gunpoint.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 3:57 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News staff
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a home on Piermont Street at around 6:45 p.m. after they say Najja Simmons called 911 to report that he had just shot his stepfather.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 10:45 AM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
One person has died after a house fire in Byhalia.
Updated: Dec. 21, 2022 at 10:22 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
As police were wrapping up a homicide scene in the New Chicago area Wednesday afternoon, another man was shot and killed by a person in the onlooking crowd.
Updated: Dec. 1, 2022 at 3:12 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A FedEx employee has died at a facility in Tennessee this week.
Updated: Nov. 29, 2022 at 4:44 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
A second suspect in the quadruple shooting that left one person dead in October has surrendered to U.S. Marshalls in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, authorities say.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 10:39 PM CST
|By Joyce Peterson and Lydian Kennin
Candlelight, tears, and calls for action poured from Memphis Monday night as the local LGTBQ+ community came together to honor and remember those impacted by the Colorado Springs nightclub shooting.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 10:26 AM CST
|By Myracle Evans and Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Police Department is investigating a mass shoplifting incident that took place in Whitehaven Sunday night.
Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 at 2:44 PM CST
|By Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that Tennessee’s mandatory sentence of life in prison, when imposed on a juvenile homicide offender, is cruel and unusual punishment and violates the juvenile’s rights as guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Updated: Oct. 30, 2022 at 9:06 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Funeral arrangements have been set for “The Killer” Jerry Lee Lewis, who passed away on Friday morning at 87.
Updated: Oct. 13, 2022 at 5:59 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Kelli Cook
Memphis police have identified the suspect charged with the shooting deaths of one adult and a 10-year-old that took place in northeast Memphis earlier in the morning.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 11:14 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff
Police arrested one suspect after a hostage situation in which a family was followed home from a gas station, forced inside and robbed at gunpoint, police say.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 9:55 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Tennessee Representative Ron Gant was airlifted to a Memphis hospital Wednesday night after surviving a head-on collision with a driver in Hardeman County, according to the county sheriff.
Updated: Oct. 5, 2022 at 6:48 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Shyra Sherfield
Police say the welfare check was performed on July 1 after a neighbor complained about a foul odor coming from inside Simone Hoover’s apartment.
Updated: Oct. 4, 2022 at 10:28 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff
A man with several active warrants was charged with assaulting an officer and evading arrest, among other charges, after police initiated a traffic stop in the early hours of Monday morning.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 7:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Memphis Museum of Science and History’s (MoSH) Memphis Proud Drag Show & Dance Party was canceled Friday night, right after it was scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., police say.
Updated: Sep. 21, 2022 at 7:15 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A Kroger employee who was shot last September when a gunman opened fire inside the grocery chain’s Collierville location has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the company alleging that gross negligence allowed the deadly mass shooting.
Updated: Sep. 20, 2022 at 5:57 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin, Joyce Peterson and Bria Bolden
The victim who says she was raped by Eliza Fletcher’s alleged killer 11 months ago filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the City of Memphis for failing to investigate the 2021 case and subsequently failing to prevent Fletcher’s death.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 10:32 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff
Collierville police are looking for four suspects accused of stealing a new car from a Mercedes-Benz dealership on Thursday after two held an employee at gunpoint.
Updated: Sep. 14, 2022 at 5:25 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Ezekiel Kelly, 19, is in custody after a frightening several hours across the city of Memphis.
Updated: Sep. 9, 2022 at 10:31 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Mid-South police departments are looking into a video circulating in the community of a group of men making threats to shoot citizens.
Updated: Sep. 8, 2022 at 5:10 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee will be traveling to Memphis to address the recent uptick in violence the city has faced.
Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 3:20 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
One of the two suspects who police say kidnapped a mother and her one-year-old baby in a Target parking lot last week was arrested and charged on Tuesday morning.
Updated: Sep. 5, 2022 at 8:32 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff
Authorities confirmed a body was found in South Memphis, but no confirmation of the crime scene being related to Eliza Fletcher’s disappearance.
Updated: Aug. 31, 2022 at 7:49 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A mother was loading groceries into her car at Target on Wednesday when two armed men ambushed her and her one-year-old baby, forcing them to travel to a nearby ATM to withdraw money.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2022 at 3:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A man has been arrested and charged after police say he shot and killed a child’s family dog as she was feeding it outside.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 10:47 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Gray News Staff
Bartlett police have charged a man with aggravated assault after being able to identify him after he left his wallet in a stolen car that he abandoned after wrecking into a field.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 5:57 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The canine burn victim “Riona” underwent the first of many skin expander surgeries on Thursday.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 5:56 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Action News 5 Staff
The Memphis Fire Department says one firefighter died following a crash in South Memphis Wednesday night.
Updated: Aug. 15, 2022 at 5:24 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
A City Watch Alert has been issued for Katherine Rinehart, 95, who was dropped off at the front door of the Lucille McWherter Senior Center Friday morning for her daily activities by her caregiver.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 6:22 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin and Jordan Gartner
A Tennessee man has been sentenced to three decades in prison for abusing a young girl for several years.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2022 at 4:25 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
14 felony arrests were made in a one-day joint operation by Memphis police on Friday, where four stolen vehicles along with five handguns were recovered.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 8:44 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Two men knocked an employee unconscious at the Cordova Skating Center after being asked to leave for smoking indoors.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 7:18 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) expressed his condolences Friday to the family of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and to the Japanese people.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 7:07 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, released a statement in response to Friday’s executive order by President Biden to protect access to abortion.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 2:51 PM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
Donald Thompson of Pleasant View is a barber, a drag racer, an avid gym member—and now a $1 million Tennessee Lottery winner.
Updated: Jul. 1, 2022 at 9:35 AM CDT
|By Lydian Kennin
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has issued a Most Wanted alert Thursday afternoon for Kylan D’Javion Beard, 18, for first-degree murder and other counts.
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