A shooting in Whitehaven resulted in one man dead and two others injured. According to the Memphis Police Department, officers responded to gunfire near a strip mall on Millbranch Road around 6:26 p.m. yesterday. They found a man who was pronounced dead at the scene, while the two other victims were taken to local hospitals in critical condition, WREG reports.
An anonymous eyewitness described the moments when gunfire erupted, saying to WREG, "We just heard boom, boom, boom, boom! My sister-in-law was in the car and she thought it was someone with a flat tire." She also saw law enforcement and grieving family members at the scene, recalling, "I just heard the guy just telling the police to get his brother off the ground."
Law enforcement officials detained a man near the crime scene, although his identity has not yet been disclosed. Information about this incident remains sparse, but the area of Millbranch Road was promptly closed off as police redirected traffic, Local Memphis reports. In a follow-up, the Memphis Police Department issued an update informing that the conditions of the two hospitalized victims had been upgraded to non-critical.
Details surrounding the motive and circumstances of the shooting are still being investigated. No further information about the identities of the victims was provided as of the latest updates, Action News 5 reported.
