Former Memphis police officer indicted on murder charge
Former Memphis police officer indicted on murder charge
By Olivia Gunn | May 19, 2021 at 3:10 PM CDT - Updated May 19 at 5:29 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A former Memphis police officer accused of killing a man in the back of his squad car and disposing the body has been indicted on first-degree murder charges.
29-year-old Patric Ferguson was also indicted on kidnapping and tampering with evidence charges.
Memphis officer now facing murder, kidnapping charges
According to the district attorney’s office, Robert Lee Howard was reported missing by his girlfriend January 6. Ferguson was later developed as a suspect and eventually admitted to investigators that we went to the victim’s home, abducted him at gunpoint, and killed him in the back of his patrol car.