Memphis, Tenn., Cop Fatally Shot Multiple Times Inside a Home

A Memphis, Tenn., police officer was fatally shot multiple times Sunday, making him the second officer on the force to be shot dead in a little over two months, the Associated Press reports.ย  Suggested Reading Three Friends Were Headed To A Beyoncรฉ Concert, But One Dies On the Way. Guess What The Other Two Did…

A Memphis, Tenn., police officer was fatally shot multiple times Sunday, making him the second officer on the force to be shot dead in a little over two months, the Associated Press reports.ย 

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Officer Terence Olridge, 31, was taken to the hospital after being discovered in a home in the suburb of Cordova but later died. The off-duty officer, who had been on the force just over a year, leaves behind a fiancee who is four months pregnant.ย 

โ€œIt just doesnโ€™t get any easier,โ€ Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told reporters Sunday. โ€œI didnโ€™t think that weโ€™d be here again so soon.โ€

On Aug. 1, Memphis Officer Sean Bolton was killed in the line of duty. Officers charged Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, who was on probation for an armed bank robbery, with first-degree murder in Boltonโ€™s death.ย 

Armstrong noted that a male suspect was in custody in connection with Olridgeโ€™s shooting death, adding that โ€œdetails are sketchy,โ€ with the investigation still in the early stages. In another report, AP noted that a 36-year-old man, identified as Lorenzo Clark, had been charged with felony possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting.

Clark, who is Olridgeโ€™s neighbor, is expected to appear in court Tuesday.ย 

Read more at the New York Post and the Associated Press.ย 

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