CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County

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$12,000 extra award posted in 2024 murder of young woman –
MEMPHIS, TN – A CrimeStoppers cash award of $12,000 is available to anyone who can help authorities identify the people involved in the shooting of Kelsay Franklin, 27, after she gave four people a lift in her car to the Eastern Heights Apartments in the Lester community the afternoon of January 27, 2024.

Franklin said the group asked for a ride from the area of Dwight and Pendleton streets to 281 W. Johnson Circle inside the apartment complex. From there she planned to drive to a restaurant where her family was celebrating her younger sister's birthday. Instead she was shot by one of the four people she helped. Police found her lying on the street beside her car. She was able to tell them that after the four got out of the car, they shot her, pulled her onto the street, took her purse and went through her pockets before fleeing through a fence and onto the Greenline that runs through east Memphis.

The family has raised $8,000 for an extra award in the case. That, plus the $4,000 eligible from CrimeStoppers, lifts the total award to $12,000 that can be paid to anyone who calls 901-528-CASH (2274) with information that will help authorities identify those involved in the shooting. Photos taken by a surveillance camera show the four, possibly one man and three women.

“I want justice for my daughter and family,” her mother, Tammy Franklin, said. “I hope and pray someone will come forward.”

“There are people in the community who would look over the photos and say they might know the individuals involved in this crime,” said David Wayne Brown, director of CrimeStoppers. “We ask people to call us even with the smallest detail or notion.”

Franklin was taken to Regional One where she was put on life support. After six days breathing with a ventilator she asked to be released, her mother said. At that point the aggravated robbery and shooting became a homicide case.

Do you know where fugitive Carlton Sims might be? He is sought on multiple s*x offender registry and community supervision charges as well as other crimes.

Call 528-CASH (2274).

To review other area fugitives: memphismostwanted.com

Reports of shots fired brought Memphis Police officers to an Exxon station at 4675 South Third Street at 1:20 a.m. Sunday, September 9, 2018. In a wooded area behind the building they found the body of Prentice Pleas. He had been shot several times.

Anyone with information on this homicide is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (901) 528-CASH.

$20,000 award posted in daytime Loomis armored truck robberies

MEMPHIS, TN – A CrimeStoppers cash award of more than $20,000 is available to anyone who can help authorities identify a trio of robbers in a brazen midday armed robbery August 29, 2025 outside a Kroger store at 1212 E. Shelby Drive.

A black Nissan Murano bearing an un-readable temporary tag parked behind a Loomis truck at 11:03 that morning. The masked gunmen held automatic rifles on the Loomis driver, ordered him to the ground, then grabbed an unspecified amount of cash in bags from inside the truck before fleeing. They were last seen driving northbound toward Raines Road.

Authorities believe the same three men are responsible for another Loomis robbery at an ATM outside a First Horizon bank in February. They fled that time with multiple containers of cash in a white Nissan Altima that was stolen and later found.

Loomis has provided $20,000 in the case, and CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County placed the money in a special account for awards. The amount will be in addition to whatever the CrimeStoppers Awards Committee of community volunteers decides will be paid out of regular CrimeStoppers funds.

The Memphis Police Department released descriptions of the suspects. All three are thinly-built black males wearing black hoodies, with masks hiding all but their eyes. Two men wore black pants and the other one wore white. Each was armed with an AR-style assault rifle.

“We believe there are people in the community who know who the robbers are,” said David Wayne Brown, executive director of CrimeStoppers. “We gladly will pay this significant amount at an undisclosed location for anonymous information to our tips line that helps bring about a charge and/or an arrest.”

The number is (901) 528-CASH (2274). Every call is guaranteed to remain anonymous.

https://crimestopmem.org/tips/

Man shot walking home - Jerry C. Shields, Jr. was walking home on a busy stretch of Elvis Presley Boulevard early on the morning of July 13, 2025, when he was shot in the back by someone who was apparently following him. The shooter took Shields’ Sketchers shoes, his cell phone and umbrella.

CrimeStoppers has a $5,000 award posted for anyone who can provide anonymous information that helps authorities arrest the person responsible. Contact us at 528-CASH (2274).

$5,000 award posted in shooting death and robbery of man walking home – CrimeStoppers Memphis Memphis, TN – CrimeStoppers of Memphis and Shelby County today announced a $5,000 award for information that helps authorities identify the shooter in the death of Jerry C. Shields, Jr. July 13, 2025.

$10,000 award announced: CrimeStoppers now has a $10,000 award in the Corey Adams homicide case, thanks to an anonymous donation. Adams, 18, and University of Mississippi football player, was killed in a shooting after a pool party in Cordova. Several others were hurt.

Anyone with information that leads to an arrest of one or more suspects is eligible for the award. Contact 528-CASH (2274). All calls are anonymous all the time. Photo: University of Mississippi

Young footballer killed in pool party shootings

As many as 100 people attended a pool party at a home on Fern Glade Cove near Forest Hill-Irene Road in Cordova Saturday, July 19. As the party ended on the cul-de-sac dozens of shots were fired and five men were hit by bullets. One died: 18-year-old Ole Miss football player Corey Adams.

Without a doubt, someone has pertinent information that could help the Shelby County Sheriff's detectives solve this murder. Call CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH. All calls are anonymous. Information will be passed to detectives. An award up to $4,000 is possible.

Carjacking on Perkins

A man was putting cash into an air pump at a Valero Gas Station in the 3100 block of Perkins the morning of Thursday, July 24, 2025 when a black male approached, threatened to shoot him and demanded his car keys. The man was armed with a black and tan handgun. He took the victim's 2010 Infinity and fled westbound on Knight Arnold Road. He was seen exiting the vehicle later at 1277 Airways Boulevard.

The suspect is a black male with light complexion, six feet tall, wearing a black hooded jacket, white t-shirt and gray shorts. He carried white and black Jordans and a black Nike backpack. Anyone who can identify this suspect is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 528-CASH (2274).

A year later, police still need tips on murders

A year ago in June, Ja'len Brooks, 21, and acquaintance Melvin Tabor walked to a Valero gas station in the Westwood area and entered the store. They had paid no attention to two cars that had pulled into the lot. When they exited a few minutes later, shots rang out from the two cars. Both men were hit and killed.

CrimeStoppers is seeking tips on this double murder that occurred June 6, 2024. Brooks, a young father, was attending trade school. He may not have known that Tabor, the likely main target, had recently been released from jail for a drive-by shooting at a house.

Stay anonymous. Call CrimeStoppers, 528-CASH (2274).