Tuesday, March 4, 2008

03/4/08

current event
Tile:Six killed, including 2 children, in Memphis home
who:A 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old

what:Six people were killed, including two children, in a home Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said. Three other children were wounded.The four dead adults were shot and the two children were stabbed, sources told CNN affiliate WMC-TV.
At least one of the wounded children also was stabbed, police told the Commercial Appeal newspaper.

when:6:11 p.m. Monday o3/4/08

where:Six killed, including 2 children, in Memphis home

why:I've been on a scene where there were one or two or three victims, but I don't remember anything this large," Guin told the Commercial Appeal.

how:The newspaper reported that the shooting appeared to be the city's deadliest mass killing since 1973, when 28-year-old David Sanders randomly shot and killed five people before being shot dead by police.
In 2000, police said firefighter Frederick Williams confessed to a shooting in Memphis in which four people were killed -- his wife, a sheriff's deputy and two fellow firefighters.

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