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William Dunavant Jr. was born on December 19, 1932, to William and Dorothy Dunavant. He was educated first at The McCallie School in Chattanooga, then at Vanderbilt University, and received his bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Memphis State University.
On January 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, was fatally injured by five black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, and died three days later. The officers, all members of the Memphis Police Department (MPD) SCORPION [a] unit, pulled Nichols from his car before pepper spraying and tasering him. Nichols broke free and ran toward ...
The Officer Down Memorial Page reports 633 deaths in the line of duty. [27] The leading cause of death for 2021 was COVID-19 at 454 deaths followed by gunfire at 64 deaths. Fifty-eight officers died in vehicle-related deaths (vehicular homicide, struck by vehicle while on-duty, automobile crash during pursuit).
A Memphis Police Department officer drives past an American flag displayed between two Memphis Fire Department trucks outside of Hope Church prior to the start of the funeral for Joseph McKinney ...
Memphis police officer, civilian killed after Downtown car crash, second cop critically injured. Gannett. Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal. August 2, 2024 at 9:10 AM.
A shootout in South Memphis early Friday morning left two people, including a Memphis police officer, dead, the Memphis Police Department said. The officer, identified as Officer Joseph McKinney ...
In 2007, the ODMP partnered with SharedBook Inc. to create The Officer Down Memorial Book, for sale from the gift shop. [2] In 2010, the ODMP became funded in part through two $150,000 grants awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs of the U.S. Department of Justice. One of those grants was to provide resources on ...
The Memphis Grizzlies held a moment of silence Friday before the game against the Lakers for Joseph McKinney, a police officer who died in a shootout.