CRIME

MPD investigates two fatal shootings

Yolanda Jones
USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
Crime

Memphis police are investigating two homicides Sunday night where a man and a woman were killed in separate shootings.

According to police, around 6 p.m. officers found a 33-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds in the front yard of a home in the 1500 block of S. Highland.

The man was taken to the Regional Medical Center where he later died.

Witnesses told police they heard several shots and saw the victim collapse in front of the home on Highland.

Then, around 7:45 p.m., police responding to another call found a 25-year-old woman with a gunshot wound at the Memphis Fire Department at 8395 Dexter in Cordova.

The woman was pronounced dead at fire station No. 58.

Police said the woman was involved in an altercation with other women at a home in the 1600 block of Wren Hollow Cove. Shots were fired and the victim was hit. Witnesses drove the victim to the fire station for help.

No arrests have been made in the homicides as police continue to investigate.