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Five Tennessee gangbangers, including three teenagers, are
facing murder charges for shooting two teens and killing one of
them during a crowded funeral.
The five gang members shot two of the victims at least eight
times during the North Memphis funeral, according to the Shelby
County District Attorney�s Office.
Emmit Beasley, 16, was killed while the other victim, also 16,
ran a short distance before he collapsed in a nearby lot,
prosecutors said. He was critically injured but survived.
All five gang members have been released after posting bond, the
district attorney�s office told The Post Wednesday.
�He had a future, and he was a nice, pleasant young man,�
Beasley�s mother, Chasity Graham, told Action 5 News. �He was
robbed; I was robbed. No parent should have to stand over their
dead child; no parents should have to bury a child.�
The other victim was Beasley�s cousin.
Shots rang out when the Oct. 21, 2021 funeral procession was
moving along a North Memphis block for 16-year-old Je�Marco
Smith, who was shot and killed weeks earlier in Raleigh. Three
men have been charged in that case.
Days after the murder last October, Graham told Action 5 News,
�The child�s casket was loaded onto a horse-drawn carriage. It
was kids following behind the casket in the funeral procession.
Personally, I was in my car behind the walking kids. I heard
gunshots ring out. I went to help, not knowing my son was laying
in the street dead.�
On Tuesday, a grand jury indicted David Lee Jr., 23; Rico Lee
Jr., 18; Jaden Rios, 16; Tavion Rogers, 17; and Tremayne Scales
Jr., 15. All are charged with first-degree murder, first-degree
attempted murder and employment of a firearm in the commission
of a dangerous felony.
�I didn�t know why my son was murdered,� Graham told WVLT. �We
don�t know his murderers.�
Lee Jr. was indicted as a convicted felon in possession of a
handgun and being held on $350,000 bail, the DA�s office said
Monday before he posted it, a Shelby DA spokesperson told The
Post Wednesday.
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