A Tenneseee mother has been charged with child abuse after she posted a photo of her 5-year-old daughter waxing a nude woman. Jasmine Moss, 30, is charged with misdemeanor child neglect and child abuse, according to WREG. Moss’s posts, to an account advertising her hair removal business, said her daughter helped wax 24 clients in …
Memphis police arrested a 20-year-old man after a lengthy crime spree on Sunday that included a carjacking, a murder, and at least two other shootings. Courdairon Craft was caught Sunday afternoon after a foot pursuit and charged with first-degree murder, especially aggravated robbery, carjacking, two counts of agravated child abuse, and two counts of evading …
The body of a Memphis woman missing since last month has been found along Interstate 22 in Mississippi. Marshall County authorities said that Kelly Sistrunk, 30, appeared to have a gunshot wound to the head, WMC reported. The body was found about 50 feet off the pavement, investigators said. Marshall County authorities were alerted to …
A relative has identified three of the victims she says were murdered by her uncle in a three-scene shooting spree in Memphis on Saturday. As CrimeOnline reported, Mavis Christian Jr, 50, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after the bodies of three women and a 13-year-old girl were found across south Memphis. …
A 15-year-old girl was critically injured in one of the three shootings.
A woman’s body was found in the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River Saturday afternoon near the Interstate 40 bridge. WREG said the body was found south of West Memphis across from President’s Island and was sent to the Arkansas Crime Lab for identification and cause of death. The discovery comes two weeks after the …
Police in Tennessee are searching for a 21-year-old Mississippi woman who disappeared from a riverboat in Memphis over the weekend. Memphis police issued an Urgent City Watch Alert for Tamia Taylor, who reportedly joined friends on a riverboat at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, WREG reported. When the cruise ended early Sunday morning and the boat docked, …
Anthony Andrews says he found the 2-year-old not breathing after he “fell out of bed.” The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Tennessee prosecutors announced Thursday they would seek the death penalty for a man charged with kidnapping and killing Memphis kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher last year. Cleotha Abston, also known as Cleotha Henderson, is accused of kidnapping Fletcher, 34, while she was out on her morning run and forcing her into an SUV, CrimeOnline reported. Her …
Investigators looking for a missing 4-year-old girl have found the remains of a small juvenile not far from the girl’s home, and the girl’s mother and her boyfriend have been charged in connection with the disappearance. Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis said in a tweet that the remains believed to be those of Sequoia Samuels …
An autopsy determined that Tyre Nichols, the Tennessee motorist who died after a savage beating by Memphis police officers, died from blunt force injuries to the head, but the report detailed multiple injuries and systemic breakdowns in his body before he died, three days after the beating. While in the hospital, the autopsy says, Nichols …
Seven people were shot, two fatally, at a Memphis restaurant Wednesday night in a shooting that police say began as an altercation inside the business. Memphis police said they arrived at Prive just after 11:15 p.m. and found two men with gunshot wounds, WHBQ reported. One was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other …
