Tip helps police nab two in senseless road rage incident that left child, 4, in critical condition
February also was a busy month for the regular CrimeStoppers program.
Information provided by 21 citizens led to 29 arrests, 17 cases solved and $350 in recovered property. Two of the tips helped bring first degree murder charges against two men in incidents from last October and November.
The CrimeStoppers Awards Committee agreed to pay a total of $13,500 in awards to the 21 tipsters, including a maximum $2,000 in both murder cases.
The Awards Committee also awarded $2,000 in an especially grievous assault incident that occurred on South Perkins February 18, 2022.
An individual was backing a car out of a driveway that evening and almost drove into the path of an oncoming car by mistake. The occupants of that vehicle swerved aggressively around and in an apparent case of road rage began shooting automatic firearmsat the first car.
“The complainant advised that the gunshots were fast and rapid and appeared to be coming from a fully automatic weapon,” said a Memphis Police Department report on the incident.
Bullets rained into the car, striking a four-year-old girl.
She was taken to the hospital in critical condition and remained so a month later.
Luckily there was a witness with a dash camera’s footage showing what happened and showing the road-rage car’s tags. Memphis Police arrested Qur’an Hester and Martavious Conner in a house on Cognac Cove in south Memphis. In the arrest they found weapons and drugs. The weapons included two Glock pistols illegally converted as automatic weapons, one with a 17-round magazine, the second with a 50-round magazine, plus an American Tactical AR-15 rifle.
The men were charged with three counts of attempted first degree murder and with various firearm counts.
