MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – An off-duty police officer died Sunday after being shot multiple times, the fourth Memphis police officer to be fatally shot in slightly more than four years, authorities said.
Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said 31-year-old Terence Olridge was taken to the Regional Medical Center, where he later died.
Officers got a call around 1 p.m. about a shooting at a home in the Memphis suburb of Cordova, Armstrong said. A male suspect is in custody, but Armstrong didn’t say whether the person has been charged.
Armstrong said the investigation is ongoing and that “details are sketchy.” Relatives of the officer could be seen crying outside the hospital.
Police blocked the street in front of the house where the shooting happened. A plainclothes detective spoke with a neighbor and uniformed officers also were on the scene.