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4 children in critical condition after shooting breaks out on Memphis interstate
View Date:2024-12-23 20:57:30
Five people, including four young children, were in critical condition while two people faced murder charges following a shooting along a West Tennessee interstate Tuesday evening.
Officers responded to the shooting that broke out on a stretch of Interstate 240, east of downtown Memphis, just after 5 p.m., according to the Memphis Police Department. When they arrived, police found an empty car riddled with bullet holes.
Meanwhile, the five victims arrived by a private vehicle at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis in critical condition, police said. The children, ranging in age from 2 to 8, as well as a 30-year-old man, were transferred to other hospitals.
Officers identified the suspect vehicle as a 2022 gray Mitsubishi Outlander, and issued a city-wide call asking officers to look out for the SUV, which had been stolen on June 9, according to the police department. Within minutes, officers spotted the vehicle and attempted a stop but the suspects fled, beginning a high-speed chase.
During their getaway attempt, the suspects fired shots at police. About 10 miles northwest of the shooting scene, the driver crashed into a ditch, and the two men took off on foot. Police soon had them in custody.
Both men, Lorenzo Watson, 18, and Kendrick Ray, 21, have been charged with multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder, using a firearm during a felony, evading arrest and felony theft, police announced in a social media post on Wednesday.
Ray was also wanted on charges of attempted first-degree murder, carjacking, employment of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. It was not immediately clear if Watson or Ray were being represented by private attorneys or the public defender's office. The Shelby County Public Defender's Office did not return a request for comment.
The afternoon shooting was one of two violent incidents that occurred on the Memphis interstate within a 24 hour period. At midnight on Tuesday, police responded to a shooting on I-240 in which a person in a black Chevrolet Cobalt pointed a handgun at another vehicle and fired it multiple times, police said. The victim's car was struck but the woman not hurt. As she pulled off the interstate, her car stalled and the suspect chased her until the she managed to get inside a bystander's car and flee.
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