A shooting rattled Memphis's Soulsville neighborhood just after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, leaving at least one person injured on Englewood Street near East Trigg Avenue, according to Memphis Police. The victim's condition had not been released, and information on a suspect remained pending as investigators worked the scene.
According to Action News 5, Memphis Police confirmed that one person was injured in the early morning shooting, but offered few additional details beyond the location and approximate time. The station reported that the investigation was ongoing as of Wednesday morning, with no further word on how the shooting unfolded or who may have been involved.
A separate account from WREG reported that a man and a woman were both shot in a Soulsville neighborhood. The report placed officers responding around 12:30 a.m. to a shooting call in the 600 block of Stephens Place. The Stephens Place shooting was reported on Aug. 12, 2026, while the Englewood Street shooting was reported on Oct. 14, 2026; they were not incidents from the same morning.
Details of the Stephens Place Shooting
WREG reported that the man was pronounced dead at the scene while the woman was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died, and that police said they determined the man was responsible for the shooting. The Stephens Place shooting was reported on Aug. 12, 2026, while the Englewood Street shooting was reported on Oct. 14, 2026; the accounts describe different incidents, not conflicting outcomes of the same event.
A Fox 13 Memphis report published Feb. 5, 2025, described a separate daylight shooting in the same neighborhood. On that Wednesday in 2025, officers were sent to Walker Avenue in Soulsville just before 1:45 p.m. for a shooting, the station reported, and a man with serious injuries later arrived at Regional One while police detained another man on Walker Avenue. The report describes a 2025 incident, not an Oct. 14, 2026 shooting.
A Neighborhood With a Troubled Recent History
Wednesday's confusion is only the latest entry in a string of Soulsville shootings documented over the past two years. In January 2025, MPD officers responded to a shooting just after 3:30 p.m. in the 900 block of College Park Drive near Walker Avenue, an incident in which five people were shot and two died, according to Local Memphis. That shooting reportedly stemmed from a disturbance inside a residence that led to an exchange of gunfire, with one man dying at the scene.
More recently, gunfire jolted the same neighborhood on March 28, when officers swarmed the 1300 block of South Bellevue Boulevard after reports of shots fired; investigators were still working to confirm whether anyone had been injured and had not released suspect descriptions, Hoodline reported at the time. In August, shots struck a home where five people, including two children, were inside. The home was hit six times and a vehicle five times, and no injuries were reported. A man named Deon Moore was later charged with five counts of criminal attempt second-degree murder in connection with that shooting.
Citywide Numbers Offer Limited Context
It's worth noting that broader Memphis crime data paints a more optimistic picture than Wednesday's events might suggest, even though no Soulsville-specific figures were available to compare against the neighborhood's recent run of shootings. Memphis Police Department data showed overall crime fell 27% in 2025, with homicides dropping 26% citywide. Overall crime was down 41% compared with 2023.
Memphis Police have not released suspect descriptions, charges or official incident reports concerning Wednesday's Englewood Street shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH.
