Live-Streaming Gunman Rampages Through Memphis

Memphis Police

Memphis police are hunting for a gunman who drove around shooting people, apparently at random, and reportedly live-streamed the crimes on Facebook.

“ALERT!! ARMED AND DANGEROUS” police said in a tweet.

They posted a photo of the suspect and said is a 19-year-old who was initially in a blue or silver sedan but now might be driving a gray Toyota SUV.

Just after 9 p.m., police posted another warning: “The suspect is still at large. If you do not have to be out, stay indoors until this is resolved.”

Police did not say where the shootings took place, but WREG reported that there were two in South Memphis before the alert was issued.

A man was shot dead at a gas station shortly after 4:30, and soon after, a woman was critically wounded near a ramp to I-240.

In a video clip circulating online that appeared to show the suspect, he exits a car ranting, says, “This shit for real” and then walks into a store and shoots a man without warning.

The suspect photo put out by police matches profile pictures on a Memphis man’s Facebook page that is also filled with pictures of himself and other young men with wads of cash and guns.

One post on that page, from Aug. 18 and addressed to his mother, reads: “I swear wont GO witout a fight I promise.”

In his Facebook stories in the hours leading up to the shootings, he reposted a string of prior posts, including one from 2019 that read: “My home boys turning into bitches, my home girls should carry my casket.”

Another repost, from January 2020, read: “I might pray and go commit a sin and then go pray again!!”

This is a developing story and will be updated…

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