Man drops loaded gun during post-high school graduation fight, MPD says

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Chaos erupted after a fight broke out moments after a high school graduation ended in Downtown Memphis over the weekend, police said.

While fists were flying, Memphis Police (MPD) said a man involved in the fight dropped a loaded gun to the ground.

Police said officers responded around 2:30 p.m. Saturday to a fight at the Renasant Convention Center, where Douglass High School had just wrapped up its graduation ceremony. Investigators talked to a school resource officer (SRO) with Memphis-Shelby County Schools who said he saw a man fighting with another man drop a gun from his waistband to the ground and picked it up…

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