MEMPHIS: 21 Shot, Including Infant, During Violent Thanksgiving Weekend

At least 21 people were shot, including a seven-month-old infant, during a violent Thanksgiving weekend in Memphis. At least five people have died.

One shooting resulted in police shutting down the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge across the Mississippi River on Interstate 55. A gunshot victim was found on the bridge. He did not survive his injuries.

Police are also investigating a shooting that left a seven-month-old infant in critical condition. The child was shot early Sunday morning in Binghampton.

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She was rushed to Methodist North Hospital in critical condition. There’s no word on a suspect in that case.

Memphians expressed their outrage over the violence which has now reached historic levels.

“No one is accountable,” said State Sen. Brent Taylor, a Republican. “Not the District Attorney. Not the courts.Certainly not the criminals.”

Taylor has been vocal about what he calls the out-of-control crime problem in the city.

“Our DA is obsessed with Restorative Justice. Meanwhile, Memphians suffer as he carries out his progressive pipe dream,” he told radio station KWAM. “Something has to give! This is destroying Memphis.”

Police say murders in 2023 had far surpassed the previous record of 346 homicides in 2021.

By comparison, more people have been murdered in Memphis this year than in New York City, the nation’s largest metropolitian area.

“Avoid Memphis. Too dangerous,” one KWAM News Radio 990 AM listener said. “There is no one to help you if things go wrong.The voters and politicians want it this way. So leave it to them.”

“All of this hate, evil, destruction of Memphis breaks my heart,” wrote another KWAM listener on Facebook. “Wish all the people who really don’t care about Memphis, filling their pockets at taxpayer’s expense, would just leave.”

The Daily Memphian reports that the significant increase in gunshot wounds is having a huge impact at Regional One Health’s Elvis Presley Trauma Center.

“I don’t think it registers with people, the magnitude of the gun violence that we’re seeing,” Dr. Andrew James Kerwin, the center’s chief of trauma, told the newspaper.