The Memphis Police Department reported a deadly period from Tuesday afternoon until early Wednesday morning.
WREG reported a string of violent crimes over a seven hour period, which resulted in at least five shootings that killed five people.
Police say the deadly crimes began just after 5:30 Tuesday afternoon, when a man was shot and killed outside a fast food restaurant in Frayser.
At 7:30, a female security employee was critically injured after being shot during an attempted carjacking at the Frayser Village Shopping Center.
Thirty-minutes later, Memphis police responded to a home on Cleoford Avenue, where two people were shot and killed and a third critically injured.
In South Memphis around 12:20, a shooting claimed the life of a man on South Wellington Street, with police responding just ten minutes later to the shooting death of a man at a gas station on Airways Boulevard.
