MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department (MPD) canceled a City Watch Alert for a man who went missing after a shooting earlier this month in the Medical District.
MPD said officers responded to a shooting on Nov. 13, 2023, around 1:40 a.m. at 1003 Union Avenue at the Exxon gas station. Investigators said a clerk told them a man in a maroon Honda CR-V with a Mississippi license plate pulled near a pump, then went inside the store and started to check out with some items. The clerk said at that time, a silver van with about five people inside pulled up and a woman got out and went into the store. Investigators said the woman confronted the man inside about a stolen car, and then as he was leaving, someone fired shots at him.
Officers searched the area and found the van on S. Camila St. with five people inside. They also found a gun in the van.
According to the police report, investigators said the woman told officers she had been driving her girlfriend's car that day with her brother, and they stopped at an apartment complex near Winchester and Millbranch. She went inside, and when she returned, she told police her brother had taken off in the car. She told officers she called her sister, who, according to the report, picked her up with the others, and they went looking for her brother.
The woman told investigators they saw the car at the gas station, and that's when she confronted her brother, and someone started shooting at him. The five people in the van were taken in for questioning.
Police said during the shooting, the brother took off eastbound on Union and was not found at the scene or at local hospitals.
A few hours after the shooting, MPD sent out a City Watch Alert for a 19-year-old man who they said was at a shooting scene in the 1000 block of Union Avenue. They did not say how he was connected. The alert was canceled Nov. 30, and MPD said he was found safe and uninjured.
Anyone with information on this case can call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH.
