3 teens found after search, charged with carjackings, shootings, robberies
Jan 20, 2025
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Two 15-year-olds and a 16-year-old were arrested Sunday after a series of violent crimes, with charges including attempted murder, aggravated robbery and carjacking.
They were found after two separate chases and a search by police in Cooper-Young, where police say they abandoned a stolen vehicle and fled.
Police say the first incident happened Dec. 18 at Ming's Chinese Cuisine on Semmes Street, where two males pointed a handgun at a man, robbed him and took his Toyota 4Runner.
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Suspects were seen getting out of this Toyota Avalon abandoned in Cooper-Young.
The same night, two people were robbed, and shots were fired at victims, at a coin laundry on Getwell. The next morning, another man was robbed of cash at a gas station on Getwell. In both cases, the suspects got away in the 4Runner.
Police say the same suspects were responsible for a carjacking at a gas station on Lamar on Jan. 18 this year. The suspects fled in the victims' Toyota Avalon. They were also connected to a carjacking on Southlawn Avenue on Jan. 19, police say.
At 1 p.m. on Jan. 19, a white Ford Mustang was stolen from Guatemala Supermarket on Getwell. Road. The armed suspects got out of a Toyota Avalon. They got away in the Mustang, with the Avalon trailing them.
The Avalon was spotted Sunday by officers in Cooper-Young. They chased it to East Parkway and Sam Cooper where the vehicle wrecked, but they then lost sight of it.
A few minutes later, three armed males were seen getting out of a damaged Avalon at Cooper Street and Elzey and running.
The crime spree came to an end around 4:15 p.m. when officers saw a white Ford Mustang on Summer Avenue that had been stolen in a carjacking hours earlier.
Officers chased the Mustang when it refused to stop, but it crashed into a guard rail at White Station and Macon.
The three suspects were found in the backyard of a house on McCrory in the Berclair area, and taken into custody. Police say one suspect had a stolen gun in a backpack.
A 15-year-old male was charged with four counts of Aggravated Robbery (4X), Carjacking (4X), Attempted First Degree Murder, Employment of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony (4X), Attempted Aggravated Robbery (2X), Reckless Endangerment (3X), and Evading Arrest on Foot.
A 16-year-old male was charged with Aggravated Robbery (4X), Carjacking (4X), Attempted First Degree Murder, Employment of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony (4X), Attempted Aggravated Robbery (2X), Reckless Endangerment (3X), Evading Arrest on Foot, Evading Arrest in a Vehicle, Reckless Driving, No Driver’s License, Financial Responsibility, Driver’s to Exercise Due Care, and Theft of Property less than $2,500 to wit Handgun.
A 15-year-old male was charged with Carjacking, Attempted Aggravated Robbery, Employment of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony, and Evading Arrest on Foot.