Teed off' about all the crime? Support our golf tournament

In just less than a month the CrimeStoppers Golf Tournament returns and we are actively seeking teams and sponsorships. Now is the time to sign up and tee off against crime.

Here are the details:

Monday, September 16, 2024 at Windyke Country Club. Start time is 1 p.m. following check-in and lunch starting at 11 a.m. This year’s tournament features a poker run and $1,500 grand prize payout.

The tournament has become the single largest fundraising event of the year for CrimeStoppers. Dollars raised are used to pay anonymous citizens who contact us with information leading to the solution of felony crimes and the finding of fugitives from justice.

For more information and to sign up a team: here

There are many sponsorship opportunities but the best ones go quickly. Email info@crimestopmem.org, or call (901) 525-5122.

We wish to thank our sponsors who have joined us so far, including Phelps Security which has returned as the tourney’s title sponsor. Other sponsors on board include presenting sponsor Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Gary and Frances Paulson, Splash Creative, Wolfchase Toyota, and Higginbotham Insurance (formerly Lipscomb Pitts).

Join the MPD, students, athletes, others and try walking a mile in her shoes

Domestic assaults, particularly violence against women, continue to haunt our community and make up a large percentage of felony-level crimes in Memphis and Shelby County.

This is why Memphis Men for Memphis Women founded the local version of Walk A Mile In Her Shoes almost a decade and a half ago. The event, organized by the Memphis Area Women’s Council, returns to The University of Memphis campus this year. Registration (and men trying on women’s high-heel shoes to walk in) begins at 4:30 Tuesday, September 17 at the Ramesses statue on Central Avenue.

The one-mile walk will begin around 5:30.

Fugitive in homicide case located

in Colorado thanks to a tipster

It was early in the evening almost two yeas ago when Memphis Police officers responded to an accident scene at North White Station and Sequoia Road, where a car had hopped a curb, struck a pedestrian, and crashed into another car parked legally in a driveway.

The officers reached the scene to find a badly injured pedestrian and an inebriated driver of the car that crashed.

The pedestrian later died from his injuries. Driver Tracy Totty was charged with vehicular homicide while under intoxication, vehicular homicide due to reckless driving and aggravated vehicular homicide.

The accident happened September 22, 2022. Soon Totty bonded out of jail, was indicted, and then she fled the city.

On May 31, of this year, however, CrimeStoppers received a tip telling us that Totty was hiding out in Colorado. The U.S. Marshal’s office was asked for assistance and soon the fugitive was arrested and extradited back to Memphis. This time her bond is set at half a million dollars.

Totty’s was one of three vehicular homicide cases that came to CrimeStoppers’ citizens awards committee in early August.