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Shop NowAfter a major killing spree rampage, over the course of several hours in two states, Ezekiel Kelly is, once again, safely in cuffs. Facebook allowed the maniac to livestream as he drove around Memphis, Tennessee, “shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks.” Wednesday night, the killer crashed one of his stolen cars in Mississippi and police hauled him away.
A terrifying hours-long rampage
CBS is reporting that “the hours-long rampage had police warning people across the city to shelter in place, locking down a baseball stadium and university campuses and suspending public bus services as frightened residents wondered where the man might strike next.”
According to Memphis Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis, “four people were killed and three others were wounded.” Altogether there were “seven shootings and at least two carjackings before Ezekiel Kelly was arrested without incident at around 9 p.m.”
On Wednesday, September 7, after crashing a stolen Dodge Challenger at the end of his rampage, “the suspect got into a standoff, refusing to get out of the vehicle, which police surrounded. Their SWAT Team was called in to assist. Memphis police say the suspect was taken into custody with the help of Shelby County Sheriff’s deputies.”
*****UPDATE 9:28 PM******
SUSPECT IS IN CUSTODY
Ezekiel D. Kelly
Please follow our social media platforms for updates.
Please avoid the area of Ivan Road & Hodge Road
— Memphis Police Dept (@MEM_PoliceDept) September 8, 2022
Another feather in the cap of liberal prosecutors, the 19-year-old suspect had recently been “released early from a prison sentence for aggravated assault.” Pundits note that raises “a sore point between the city’s mayor and the county’s top prosecutor that played out before the cameras at an early Thursday news conference.”
Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland isn’t happy about having a maniac on the rampage around his town. “This is no way for us to live and it is not acceptable.” He pounded the podium as he thundered “if Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive.”
For all the promises of social media safety, Facebook allowed Kelly to livestream his killing spree for the masses to enjoy. “In February 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, using a firearm to commit a dangerous felony and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.”
Death goes live on Facebook
Police note the first killing of the rampage happened just before 1:00 a.m. Wednesday morning and police followed him around town from crime-scene to crime-scene three more times, without catching a clue. Their luck changed when cops got “a tip at 6:12 p.m. that the suspect was livestreaming himself threatening to cause harm to citizens.”
A clip from the killer’s production shows as “the suspect casually speaks to the camera before opening the door to an AutoZone store and shooting someone inside with what appeared to be a pistol. That man was taken to a hospital in critical condition.” The really disturbing part is the number of likes it got.
As the rampage continued, Kelly acted like he was auditioning for America’s Got Talent. While narrating his driving, “green light, green light,” he sings “no faking.” Then, he casually “fires two rapid bursts of gunfire out the driver’s window.”
That’s when he explained he was going to have a little meeting with police, planning to “go down to the valley, shoot it out with them in the valley.”
Local outlets report that “three more shootings and two carjackings followed.” They knew the rampage wasn’t over and advised “people to be on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man responsible for multiple shootings and reportedly recording his actions on Facebook.”
He “killed a woman in Memphis as he took her grey Toyota SUV, which he left behind when he stole a man’s Dodge Challenger across the state line in Southaven, Mississippi.” He crashed in a high-speed chase.
