Memphis police have charged four people — three of them juveniles — in connection with the shooting death of a beloved pastor during a carjacking last week. Rev. Autura Eason-Williams, pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church, was shot and killed in her driveway on July 18, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Three teens — a 15-, …
A 15-year-old Tennessee boy has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a beloved United Methodist Church pastor during a carjacking in Memphis. Rev. Autura Eason-Williams was killed outside her home Monday afternoon. She was the pastor of Capleville United Methodist Church and the district superintendent of the Metro District in the …
A 1-year-old boy was reportedly found dead on Thursday in a hot car parked outside a Tennessee daycare. The toddler, who has not been publicly identified, died at a hospital after he was found unresponsive at Education is the Key Childcare in Memphis. Police said a daycare employee had picked up the child in her …
A Tennessee man has been jailed on kidnapping and evading arrest charges after a woman slipped a note to a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee begging for help, and that employee called police. Memphis police officers responded to the restaurant, and the employee gave them a description of the woman and man who was with her. …
The man accused of stabbing to death a beloved Memphis chef last month appeared in court Tuesday asking a judge to reduce his $1 million bond to $100,000. Instead, the judge raised the bond to $5 million for 57-year-old Jonathan Brush, WHBQ reported. Brush told investigators that Jody Moyt, the executive chef at Memphis’s legendary …
A Memphis man accused of killing a popular Midtown chef in an apparent road rage incident had previously spent more than 10 years in prison for another murder. Jonathan Brush told investigators that he stabbed a man who allegedly ran him off the road Sunday night, got out of his car, and threatened to kill …
A 57-year-old Tennessee man has been charged with murder after he called 911 and said that he had stabbed a driver who ran him off the road and then threatened him. Memphis police said the incident took place shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday night, according to WREG. Jonathan Brush reportedly told an emergency dispatcher that …
A Memphis woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly stabbed her husband during an argument over a cup of coffee. Sheila Downey’s husband, who has not been named, told officers the entire story before he died Sunday afternoon, according to WHBQ. According to an arrest affidavit, the man said that he and his …
A 9-year-old child is among the wounded.
A Memphis grand jury has indicted a man for kidnapping another man from a wheelchair, shooting him to death, and leaving his body in a Shelby County field. Jerome Nichols, 24, has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder, first-degree murder in perpetration of a kidnapping, especially aggravated kidnapping with a deadly weapon, and especially aggravated …
A Tennessee mother and her friend were charged with criminal negligent homicide after the mother’s 3-year-old son found an AR-15 pistol and shot himself to death. According to an arrest affidavit, Tinesha Jackson, 24, left her two sons — 3-year-old Bryson and his 4-year-old brother — in the care of their uncle on Sunday while …
The father of a missing newborn has been charged with the murder of both the little girl and the baby’s mother. Memphis police said Wednesday night that they have arrested 25-year-old Brandon Isabelle, father of 2-day-old Kennedy Hoyle, charging him with two counts of first degree murder, especially aggravated kidnapping, and tampering with and fabricating …
