Police investigate 3 killings in 24 hours in Memphis

Memphis police are investigating three separate homicides in less than 24 hours. It was another spate of violence in what's already one of the city's bloodiest years on record.

As of Nov. 22, the homicide count stood at 201, according to the newspaper's Memphis Homicide Tracker. These three killings would bring the count to 204.

The city's record for homicides was set in 1993, when 213 people were killed.

The first killing in the recent round of violence was discovered around 11 a.m. on Friday, when police responded to a call about a body found in an apartment unit in the 3800 block of Jackson Avenue near the National Cemetery, police Lt. Karen Rudolph wrote in an email. Police found a male victim dead of an apparent gunshot wound. He has not been identified.

Then at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, police responded to a shooting in the 4100 block of Parkchester in Parkway Village. One male victim had been shot and was transported to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, Rudolph wrote. Investigators concluded that the shooting victim had gone to the location to visit his children, then got into an argument with his children's mother and her sister, she wrote.

A fight broke out, the man reportedly assaulted both women, and the mother of the children shot him, Rudolph wrote. The sister had injuries consistent with being choked and was taken to a hospital and later released.

The woman who fired the fatal shot was released. "All evidence was reviewed by the (District Attorney General's Office) and it was determined that no charges will be filed at this time," Rudolph wrote.

Then at 1 a.m. Saturday, a man was found shot dead in the driver seat of a vehicle on Kerr near Englewood in South Memphis, Rudolph wrote. The man has not yet been identified.

In one piece of good news, a driver who was shot near a barber shop in the 2900 block of Chelsea in North Memphis Friday evening survived the incident and was upgraded to non-critical condition, Rudolph wrote.