One such recent incident that raised her concerns happened Saturday, when four people were shot at the Orange Mound Community Center on Park Avenue — located just feet away from the closed MPD building. Dowdy said that without police in the area, violent incidents are likely to continue.

FOX13 crews at the scene saw at least six police cars, fire department personnel, and the MPD tactical unit at the scene of the barricade.

Project Pat, a co-founder of Three 6 Mafia, is mourning the loss of his son, Patrick Houston Jr., who was fatally shot in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. 10. According to an online obituary, he was 22, People reported.

The unanimous vote to confirm her as chief came nearly a year after Davis failed a non-binding test vote to be re-confirmed as the Memphis Police Department's chief following Young's election. Instead, Young and councilmembers brokered a deal to place her ...

A federal judge ruled to replace a private attorney who monitors the Memphis Police Department with two lawyers employed by the city.

A Shelby County Sheriff's Office deputy shot and killed a man Tuesday morning, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ... The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Most in Memphis Police Department are lesser-experienced officers. Can problems arise?

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis City Council members voted to approve Cerelyn 'C.J.' Davis as the Memphis Police Department chief one year after being tagged as the interim. Davis was confirmed unanimously by the council after previously being moved to an interim tag when Mayor Paul Young assumed office in January 2024.

Crime in Memphis dropped in almost every major category between 2023 and 2024, according to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation data.

According to a post on their X page, the Memphis Police Department said officers were sent to Burdette Avenue in Frayser for a shooting just before 8:30 in the morning. MPD said they found one man ...

The U.S. Department of Justice is pausing all active litigation being done by its civil rights division. How could this freeze affect Memphis' cases?

Two people have been hospitalized after an apparent road rage incident ended in a stabbing in Atoka, Tennessee. According to the Atoka Police Department, officers responded to reports of a stabbing in the 11000 block of Highway 51 South at 4:50 p.

East Shelby Drive has been shut down due to an accident involving a pedestrian, according to the Memphis Police Department.