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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.

<https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/tennessee-gang-member-face-murder- charges-after-funeral-shooting/>
 

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