Police Report

Pedestrian killed in overnight hit-and-run

Memphis police are searching for a driver who fled the scene after hitting a pedestrian who later died from his injuries.

Police responded to the collision at Madison Avenue and Morrison Street around 9 p.m. Wednesday.

Officers found the victim, identified by police as William Phillips, had been hit as he and a woman walked northbound across Madison at Morrison.

Witnesses told police that the motorist, who was driving a silver Mustang, stopped briefly after the crash and then drove away eastbound on Madison Avenue.

Phillips was found lying in the roadway. He was taken to the Regional Medical Center where he later died from his injuries.

This is the fifth fatal pedestrian crash in the city this year. Last year, 33 pedestrians were killed in fatal crashes in Memphis.

Identities released in two murder-suicides

Memphis police have released the identities of those involved in two separate murder-suicides on Sunday.

Around 3:41 a.m. Sunday, police responded to the first incident in the 1200 block of Thrushcross Cove. Officers found Margaret Swearengen, 65, inside the residence with multiple gunshot wounds. Tom Swearengen, her 67-yearold husband, was found with a single gunshot wound. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

The second murder-suicide was reported around 6:25 p.m. at an apartment in the Greenstone building at the 200 block of North Waldran at Poplar Avenue. The person who called police went to check on the apartment and found James Lea, 64, and his wife, Lisa Lea, 55, dead.

Four in custody after 5-hour standoff in Shelby County

Four people were arrested after a five-hour barricade situation at a home in north Shelby County early Thursday morning.

The incident began around midnight after a man showed up at Shelby County Fire station No. 69 with a gunshot wound. The man told firefighters he had been shot at a home in the 8200 block of Penny Lane, near Millington.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and negotiators went to the home and were warned to stay back, said Sheriff’s Office spokesman Earle Farrell.

After failing to convince those inside to come out, authorities went into the home.

Two men and two women were taken into custody shortly before 5 a.m. Two children were also in the home.

No other injuries were reported and no charges have been filed yet, Farrell said.