News of the Day: August 21, 2020

Here’s everything you need to know going on in the Mid-South to start your Friday:

• On ‘Wake Up Memphis,’ Memphis Councilman Frank Colvett Jr. tells Robyn Walensky what the council’s decision on voters not being able to vote for police officers to live outside of the city means for Memphians. “It means that crime will go up potentially,” Colvett says, “it means that we’re going to have a harder and harder time recruiting police officers,it means that there were 24 children killed already killed this year, 21 of them African American. What are those numbers going to be like in a year?”

• The coronavirus is already hitting colleges. Ole Miss is set to start classes Monday, but already 15 athletes and one employee have tested positive for the virus.

• A Collierville man has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly pulling out a pistol on a door-to-door salesman and threatening to shoot. The man turned himself in and later was bonded out of jail.

• A woman was found shot to death at the Walgreens on Walnut Grove in Cordova Thursday night. The suspect was reportedly seen in a white GMC SUV. If you have any information, please call 528-CASH.

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