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1,004 articles from Tennessee
Court documents: Person of interest in Jajuan Latham case is gang member (Knoxville, TN):
Court documents allege a person of interest in the shooting death of a Knoxville 12-year-old has a gang connection. Jajuan Latham was shot while sitting in his dad’s car in a Mechanicsville park earlier this year during what police are calling a gang-related shooting.
Source: WATE 6 News Date: September 28, 2016
Source: WATE 6 News Date: September 28, 2016
Plan for Chattanooga neighborhood 'safety zone' draws criticism (Chattanooga, TN):
Thirty-one gang members may soon be prohibited from partaking in a number of activities with other known gang members within a roughly two-mile "safety zone" in Chattanooga. But the American Civil Liberties Union says the idea is reminiscent of a controversial strategy called "broken windows policing."
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 27, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 27, 2016
Sheriff says Hamilton County jail overcrowding causes more gang violence (Chattanooga, TN):
Could the size of the Hamilton County Jail contribute to the city's gang violence? That's a question some county leaders are asking on the heels of a petition filed to declare two groups public nuisances and an entire neighborhood safe from gang violence.
Source: WTVC NewsChannel 9 Date: September 27, 2016
Source: WTVC NewsChannel 9 Date: September 27, 2016
Pinkston files petition against validated gang members in East Lake (Chattanooga, TN):
About 45 validated gang members may soon be prohibited from specific activities in a public safety zone that authorities have mapped out in East Lake. At a press conference this morning, Hamilton County District Attorney General Neal Pinkston announced his plan to enforce a civil injunction on two prominent gangs — the Gangster Disciples and Grape Street Crips — alongside several law enforcement partners.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 26, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 26, 2016
More women killed in Chattanooga during 2016 than any year since 2011 (Chattanooga, TN):
More women have been killed in Chattanooga this year than any other year since at least 2011, records show. And while domestic violence has historically been responsible for the majority of the women killed in the city, this year, nearly half of the women slain have been part of gang violence, police said.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 25, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: September 25, 2016
D.A. Pinkston to file petition to create "Safety Zone" in East Lake (Chattanooga, TN):
The office of Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston says Pinkston, along with Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher, Chattanooga Housing Authority Police Chief Felix Vess, and others, will hold a news conference on Monday to announce the filing of a petition "to abate certain gangs as a nuisance and to create an East Lake Safety Zone.
Source: WTVC NewsChannel 9 Date: September 22, 2016
Source: WTVC NewsChannel 9 Date: September 22, 2016
Ruling means new trial for one of four confessed Knox gang members in shootout (Knoxville, TN):
A state appellate court has ordered a new trial for an admitted Bloods gang member involved in the shooting of an innocent Vine Middle School student in a decision that changes the way gun violence is prosecuted in Tennessee.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: August 31, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: August 31, 2016
Crips gang member convicted of robbing 79-year-old man (Knoxville, TN):
A jury convicted a member of the Crips street gang on Thursday of robbing a 79-year-old man, according to a news release from Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: August 24, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: August 24, 2016
Toddler wounded in Alton Park drive-by shooting is victim of ongoing gang war, police say (Chattanooga, TN):
The car spun around the corner and the bullets flew. One bullet slammed into a car, another shattered the window of a house across the street, one cut through a pink toy truck parked by the house on the corner — and one bullet hit the leg of a 22-month-old boy.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 12, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 12, 2016
Police: Shooting of One-year-old gang related; connected to three other shootings (Chattanooga, TN):
A 22-month-old baby was shot in the leg in Alton Park on Wednesday in a drive-by attack that police say is linked to a rash of violence this week.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 11, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 11, 2016
Shooting of 22-month-old baby "gang-related" (Chattanooga, TN):
Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said Thursday morning that a 22-month-old baby was shot in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night, and that the shooting is gang-related.
Source: WRCB 3 News Date: August 10, 2016
Source: WRCB 3 News Date: August 10, 2016
Chattanooga officials eye new social service provider proposals for Violence Reduction Initiative (Chattanooga, TN):
Chattanooga leaders soon will consider new social service provider proposals for the Violence Reduction Initiative, the city's flagship gang deterrent program.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 3, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: August 3, 2016
Alleged gang member arrested in June homicide (Memphis, TN):
An alleged Vice Lords gang member has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man reportedly in a rival gang, according to an arrest affidavit.
Source: The Commercial Appeal Date: August 3, 2016
Source: The Commercial Appeal Date: August 3, 2016
GANG TIES: Legal process for identifying gang members is far from settled (Knoxville, TN):
Donald "Deno" McCoy says he was never a gang member before authorities labeled him one. The Lonsdale native heard his name was on a local law enforcement list of known gangbangers in the early 2000s while working with Tribe One, an inner-city ministry led by former Knoxville City Councilman Chris Woodhull and by Danny Mayfield, who died in 2001.D
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 30, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 30, 2016
Need for belonging, lack of opportunity drive Knoxville gang membership (Knoxville, TN):
Once University of Tennessee sociology assistant professor Robert Duran began to learn about the concept of statistics as a teenager, he realized he was on his way to becoming one. Duran joined a street gang at age 15 in Ogden, Utah, for many of the same reasons he said lure local teens to Knoxville's gang scene — lack of opportunity and a desire to belong.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 30, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 30, 2016
Judge: Recordings of witness favorable to defense ‘suppressed’ (Knoxville, TN):
In a rare move, a federal judge has ordered up a new trial for an alleged gang member accused of drug-dealing after law enforcers failed to disclose recordings of a witness' account that buttressed the defense case.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 29, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 29, 2016
Man killed in Chattanooga was known gang member and brother of TN House candidate (Chattanooga, TN):
A 28-year-old who was shot and killed on Glass Street just after 1 a.m. Friday was the brother of Dennis Clark, a Democrat who is running for Tennessee House District 28 seat.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: July 29, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: July 29, 2016
Six alleged members of Mafia Insane Vice Lords charged with racketeering (Knoxville, TN):
Six alleged members of the Mafia Insane Vice Lords street gang have been indicted in a heroin conspiracy in what prosecutors say is the first use in Knox County of the state's racketeering law.
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 22, 2016
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: July 22, 2016
Former leader of Memphis gang gets 10-year prison sentence (Memphis, TN):
Federal prosecutors say the former leader of a Memphis street gang has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. The U.S. attorney's office says 28-year-old James Earl McCracken was sentenced this month by U.S. District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. McCracken pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy in December.
Source: WRCB 3 News Date: July 21, 2016
Source: WRCB 3 News Date: July 21, 2016
Judge appoints attorney to man charged with murdering rival gang member (Chattanooga, TN):
The 21-year-old man charged with murder in a fatal August drive-by shooting now has an attorney. Attorney Jay Perry was appointed Thursday to represent Christopher Walton in Hamilton County Criminal Court.
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: July 15, 2016
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press Date: July 15, 2016
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