7 killed after deadly weekend in Memphis, nearly 50 murders reported this year
Message to curb gun crime after violent weekend By Janice Broach | March 1, 2021 at 10:29 PM CST - Updated March 2 at 10:36 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A deadly weekend in Memphis with seven people shot and killed. All of it contributing to a skyrocketing number of murders this year over last year. It has experts scrambling for answers.
“I got a phone call at work that my brother had been shot. That’s the hardest thing to take right there to get a phone call like that,” said Jerry Hampton.
Hampton’s 32-year-old brother, DeAngelo, a father of four children, was one of two people shot and killed at a market on South Parkway over the weekend. Hampton said he came to the market to get change for his children’s haircuts a block away.
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