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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 29, 2022

In one of her last acts as Shelby County district attorney, outgoing prosecutor Amy Weirich announced Friday that her office has cleared several police officers of criminal charges in three separate fatal shootings. The Commercial Appeal reports on the cases, which involved Antonio Jackson, age 26, who was killed on Aug. 16, 2021; Kayla Lucas, age 25, who was killed on Dec. 15, 2021; and Terrance Dogan, age 27, and John Henry Taylor, age 18, who were killed by Arkansas State Police in Memphis on Dec. 16, 2021. Each of the cases was investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, which then passed the findings on to the district attorney for a determination of any criminal charges. Weirich, a Republican, was defeated in an election earlier this month by Democrat Steve Mulroy.