Memphis is on track to top last year's total of highway shootings. Author: Caitlin McCarthy Updated: 10:23 PM CDT July 6, 2021 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis highways have had at least 69 shootings in just the first half of the year or an average of three a week. In all of 2020, the total was 83 shootings. It's so bad some drivers, like Latonya Williams, said they try to avoid taking any Memphis interstate or state highway just hoping to stay out of the crosshairs of gunfire. "We’re just halfway into the year, how many more left for the rest of the year?" Williams said. After a weeks-long sting called "Operation Grizzly Bear" in 2019, more than 30 Tennessee Highway troopers were brought to Memphis assist the Shelby County Sheriff's Office and Memphis Police in patrolling the highways. The number of shootings that year capped at 46.