Then, at 8:55 p.m., officers responded to the 800 block of West Raines Road where a woman with gunshot wounds was pronounced dead, according to Davis. He was taken to a hospital in non-critical condition, Davis said. The gunman fled the scene with the victim’s vehicle, a gray SUV, Davis said.Ī minute later, officers again responded to a shooting on Poplar Avenue and found a man who had been shot. The Memphis Police Department then launched a citywide search for an “armed and dangerous” suspect, urging some residents to shelter in place.Īt 7:23 p.m., another shooting was reported in the area of Poplar Avenue and North Evergreen, where a woman had been shot and killed.
This undated photo released by the Memphis Police Department shows 19-year-old shooting suspect Ezekiel Kelly. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition.Ī short time later, at 6:12 p.m., police received a call that someone named “Zeek Huncho” was live on Facebook saying he was “threatening to cause harm to citizens,” Davis said. Responding officers found a male with a gunshot wound. “Ezekiel Kelly was on Facebook Live when he opened fire inside the store,” Davis said. More than an hour later, at 5:59 p.m., officers arrived at the scene of another shooting at a store the 4000 block of Jackson Avenue. The suspect fled in a dark colored sedan, Davis said. She was taken to a hospital in non-critical condition. Minutes later, at 4:40 p.m., officers responded to a shooting at Norris Road and I-240, where a woman had a gunshot wound to the leg. Video surveillance from a nearby business captured the gunman pulling up next to the victim in a grey sedan and firing multiple shots before driving away, Davis said. Tunstall was shot in the head.Īt 4:38 p.m., officers responded to another shooting in the 900 block of South Parkway East, where they found a man in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was identified as Dewayne Tunstall, who was with four other friends when Kelly pulled him aside, according to the affidavit.
Three witnesses at the scene – friends of the victim and suspected shooter – positively identified Kelly from a photographic line up, according to an arrest affidavit. Officers found a male victim in a driveway and he was pronounced dead at the scene, Davis said. The first shooting was reported around 12:56 a.m. “Many families will never, ever get over the horrific violence that we saw, that one individual inflicted on the city tonight.”Įzekiel Kelly's booking photo from the Shelby County Jail. “Our citizens in Memphis and Shelby County were going about their business … getting off from work, picking up children from daycare, just going about their ordinary lives, when it was all of a sudden shattered,” Shelby County Sheriff Floyd Bonner said. Wednesday and continued through the late evening hours, triggering a shelter-in-place order for part of the city as police searched for the gunman.
He’s being held on a first-degree murder charge though officials said they anticipate additional felony charges. Kelly, who is also known as Zeek Huncho, is to appear in court on Friday, according to jail records.
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Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today, and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive,” Strickland said. He pleaded guilty to the lesser charge after originally facing counts that included attempted murder, reckless endangerment and using a firearm with intent to commit a dangerous felony in a 2020 case in Shelby County, court records show. Kelly was released from prison in March after serving 11 months of a three-year sentence for aggravated assault. Brad Vest/Getty ImagesĪt least one of the shootings was apparently streamed on Facebook Live – which ultimately led to the arrest of Ezekiel Kelly following a high-speed pursuit, Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis said at a news conference early Thursday.
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Police at scene of a reported carjacking connected to a series of shootings in Memphis on Wednesday.
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