Memphis Man, 20, Dragged Girlfriend From Car, Ran Over Her, Police Say

A 20-year-old man was booked into the Shelby County jail this past Saturday on charges of criminal attempt second-degree murder and domestic assault, two weeks after Memphis police found a woman lying in the middle of an southeast Memphis street with abrasions and lacerations covering her body. Daiunique Carrick is accused of running over his girlfriend during a fight that began inside his own vehicle.

According to Action News 5, Memphis police responded to an armed person call on the 3200 block of Allshore Street on August 7, per the affidavit, and found the woman lying in the roadway with several apparent abrasions and lacerations on various parts of her body, according to officers. The Allshore Street address sits in the Parkway Village neighborhood of southeast Memphis, in the 38118 zip code near Cottonwood Road, per property records reviewed by Zillow. She was taken to Regional One Health for treatment, a facility that houses the Elvis Presley Trauma Center, the only designated adult Level 1 trauma center within 150 miles, serving West Tennessee, North Mississippi, and East Arkansas, according to Regional One Health.

Witness Describes Escalating Fight Inside the Car

Police say Carrick ran over his girlfriend after the two got into an argument, per police accounts relayed in the affidavit. A witness told investigators that the victim and Carrick were arguing at the driver's door of his vehicle when the dispute escalated into a physical altercation. The witness reported seeing the victim get pushed out of the car before Carrick knocked her down, then pulled her back into the vehicle, and the two continued fighting inside.

The victim was identified as having been inside Carrick's vehicle during the struggle, per the witness account cited in the affidavit. A witness told police they saw the victim run toward a black vehicle, and further described Carrick dragging the victim out of the car before reportedly running her over with it. The vehicle's driver then left the scene, according to the affidavit detailed by the station.

Charges Carry Years-Long Exposure Under Tennessee Law

Carrick was officially booked into the Shelby County Sheriff's Office jail facility on Saturday at 10:04 a.m., facing formal charges of criminal attempt second-degree murder and domestic assault involving bodily harm, according to booking records from the Shelby County Sheriff's Office. Under Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-210 and § 39-12-101, attempted second-degree murder is classified as a Class B felony carrying a statutory prison term ranging from 8 to 30 years depending on offender classification, with standard Range I offenders facing 8 to 12 years, per the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals. The domestic assault charge, under Tennessee Code Annotated § 39-13-111, is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 11 months and 29 days in jail and fines up to $2,500, according to Freeman & Fuson.

Cases like Carrick's typically fall to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office's dedicated Domestic Violence Unit, which handled more than 4,100 domestic violence cases in 2024 and secured convictions in 10 of the 11 that went to trial, per the office's own accounting. It remains unclear from available records what Carrick's current bond status is, whether he has retained defense counsel, or whether a protective order existed between the two before the August 7 incident.

Domestic Violence Persists Even as Overall Crime Falls

The case lands amid a broader pattern local officials are still grappling with. Crime data released in July 2026 by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission and the University of Memphis Public Safety Institute showed that while major violent crime in Memphis dropped 31.5% in the first half of the year, domestic violence offenses fell by just 5.7% in Memphis and 5.9% countywide, with Shelby County logging 7,828 reported domestic violence offenses through June alone. Shelby County recorded more than 16,000 total domestic violence offenses in 2025, including over 14,000 within Memphis city limits, and firearms were involved in more than half of the domestic aggravated assaults reported that year.

In response, local leaders and the University of Memphis Public Safety Institute established the Shelby County Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response Strategic Plan this month, convening prosecutors, healthcare providers, and community nonprofits to close gaps in victim support. The Allshore Street case follows a Soulsville vehicle attack case Hoodline reported just days earlier, underscoring how often vehicles have turned up as weapons in Memphis domestic violence cases this month. The victim's updated condition following her stay at Regional One Health has not been publicly disclosed.