MEMPHIS, Tenn.: The city of Memphis, Tennessee, has already broken its record for killings in a calendar year with 230, even though there are still about three months left in 2020, police said Tuesday.
The deaths of a woman who was shot at a fast-food restaurant drive-thru over the weekend and a 12-year-old boy who was shot in a Memphis neighborhood on Monday moved Tennessee’s second-largest city above the previous record of 228 homicides in a year, set in 2016, Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
Brownlee said 27 juveniles have been victims of a homicide so far this year. Police officials have said that they fear Memphis could reach 300 total homicides this year. Shelby County Health Department Director Alisa Haushalter said the COVID-19 pandemic has affected several aspects of public health, such as domestic violence,…