MEMPHIS, Tenn. — WREG has learned the gun found with a Whitehaven High School student was stolen from law enforcement in 2016.
WREG found out the gun belonged to a now-former deputy sheriff in Louisiana.
In 2016, at the downtown Holiday Inn Express parking lot, Memphis police responded to a car theft. The victim was listed as the sheriff of Jefferson Davis Parish in Louisiana.
Officers say they responded to the scene on July 1st, 2016.
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The victim, now, former Sheriff Ivy Woods, said his Chevy Suburban was broken into…