IN MEMPHIS, Tenn.— For his part in a violent killing in southwest Memphis in August, the Memphis Police Department has arrested a man.
Police say they were called to the Horn Lake Express at 3135 New Horn Lake Road just before 2 a.m. on August 21.
When they got there, a man was lying in the middle of the store who had been shot several times in the chest. He was taken to Methodist University and then to Regional One Hospital, where his situation was very bad.
Police looked at video from the store on August 24 and said they saw a man, identified as 20-year-old Keshawn Taylor, talking to the victim inside the shop. Taylor then takes out a gun and points it at the subject in the chest.
Police say Taylor shot the man in the chest from a dead-on range after the victim moved the gun away.
He is said to have run out of the store and tried to get into a car with another man, but he failed.
The man in the car was arrested on August 30 for warrants that had nothing to do with the accident. He told the cops that he saw the shooting and heard the two men talking right before it happened.
Taylor was named by the man as the person who shot the victim inside the shop.
The victim was talked to by police on October 2. He or she has been on a respirator since the shooting on August 21. Based on the MPD, he was hit in the chest, just missing his heart.
The person who was shot also said that Taylor was the person who did it.
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