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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 19, 2021

Memphis police officer Patric Ferguson, who was accused of killing a man in the back of his squad car and disposing of the body earlier this year, has been indicted on first-degree murder, Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich announced today. Ferguson was also charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, official misconduct and official oppression. He is being held without bond. Investigators said that Ferguson went to the home of Robert Lee Howard Jr. on Jan. 6, abducted him at gunpoint and killed him. Ferguson then left the body in one location but later moved it to another location, where it was recovered on Jan. 10.