Stories/Essays: Senseless Streets: mbgang15-01

A Shelby County deputy with the Street Crimes Unit takes notes while talking to a suspected Blood in the Hyde Park area of North Memphis. His brother was shot more than a dozen times in a gang hit. The young man is wearing a shirt covered in gang symbols to memorialize his brother. The murder remains unsolved. (Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)

A Shelby County deputy with the Street Crimes Unit takes notes while talking to a suspected Blood in the Hyde Park area of North Memphis. His brother was shot more than a dozen times in a gang hit. The young man is wearing a shirt covered in gang symbols to memorialize his brother. The murder remains unsolved.  

(Mike Brown/ Memphis Commercial Appeal)