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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A juvenile, Jesse Martinez Jr., has been transferred to adult court and is now charged with first-degree murder. Martinez is being charged as an adult for the killing of 15-year-old Michael Aguilar; family members identified the victim as Aguilar. The charge stems from an April shooting...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two brothers are now in jail after police say they shot a man several times at a Hickory Hill apartment complex before robbing him last month. Dewayne Jacobs, 18, and Lamarian Jacobs, 22, are both charged with criminal attempt first-degree murder, aggravated robbery, and employment of a firearm with...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A Memphis grandfather is being praised after pulling his grandson out of an early morning house fire Friday. Shelby County Fire Department says their crews responded to the house in the 7000 block of Wynne Ridge Road just before 3 a.m. A boy was injured in...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The Memphis Safe Task Force conducted an investigation Tuesday night in East Memphis. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. at Stratford Road and McCrory Avenue. Neighbors in the area said the investigation stemmed from a chase and people ran out of a home. Officials have not...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy is responding after a report revealed repeat offenders made up 78% of the jail population in October. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office’s Monthly Report Card shows that in October, 2,550 inmates were repeat offenders, which means they made up 78% of the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The average daily population of downtown and jail east has reached 3,254, according to an October jail report from the Memphis Crime Beat. The report states the average daily total of a convicted criminal who reoffended in October is 2,550, which made up 78% of the average daily jail population that...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two men are now behind bars after the Tennessee Highway Patrol says they led troopers on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash and a shooting in Raleigh on Wednesday morning. Dedreck McVay, 32, and Kevin Riley, 19, are both charged with reckless endangerment, intentionally evading arrest in auto,...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Memphis Safe Task Force (MSTF) arrested two men Wednesday on separate felon-in-possession cases, officials said. MSTF officials said they arrested Carlos Johnson just after noon at an apartment complex in Millington on an aggravated assault and felon-in-possession warrant issued out of Shelby...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Agents seized firearms from two convicted felons in separate cases on Wednesday. On December 3, Carlos Johnson, 26, was arrested at an apartment complex in the 7800 block of Highway 51 North in Millington for an aggravated assault charge and a felon in possession charge in Shelby County. U.S....

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office announced that there have been 12 in-custody deaths this year. “Many of the people who enter the jail are already carrying the heavy weight of poverty, chronic illness, addiction, and a lifetime of limited access to healthcare,” said Sheriff Floyd Bonner, Jr. “These...