Woman shot, killed outside South Memphis gas station
A 32-year-old woman was shot and killed as she sat in her car outside a South Memphis gas station early Tuesday morning.
Police responded to a shots-fired call at 3:46 a.m. at the Roma Mart in the 500 block of Mallory and Lauderdale.
Crime scene tape and police surrounded the gas station where the woman's body lay on the ground near a red Mustang.
Residents said she had just gotten off work from the nearby FedEx Ground.
Memphis Police Maj. Rodney Adair said as the woman pulled up to the 24-hour store a man opened fire. A man in the car with the woman was not injured. He was detained for questioning.
Adair said the suspect fled and is described as a black man with dreadlocks. He was last seen wearing a gray hoodie.
Resident Reginald Hawkins said he heard four shots from his nearby home.
"I was coming to the store to get a newspaper like I do every morning," Hawkins said. "It is pitiful this happened. The killing has got to stop."