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CrimeStoppers fights crime around the clock every day of the year. Citizens securely call or text or email us anonymously so that we can identify crooks and give authorities information which helps arrest fugitive felons.

This works because other citizens donate to us generously. 

That is Crimestoppers in a nutshell: people who report and other people who support.

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Now is the time of year when many consider how to spend their philanthropic dollars. Won’t you help us this year? It’s easy to do: go online at www.crimestopmem.org and click on the donate button at the to of the age, or send us a check at Crimestoppers of Memphis and Shelby County, 600 Jefferson Ave., Suite 451, Memphis, TN 38105.

We know there are plenty of needs out there.

We happen to think that safety comes first.

Neighborhood bar killing quickly

solved thanks to CrimeStoppers tip

The argument began with words between two men seeing the same woman.

The disagreement escalated as the two men went outside a bar on Cleveland Street near Crump Stadium. Soon one man pulled out a handgun and fired several shots into a parked car, killing Blake Rhea, a well-known local musician.

The gunman fled the scene before police arrived.

But a tister called CrimeStoppers and provided an identity of the suspect as Edward Wurl. Memphis detectives determined the information was accurate. Wurl turned himself in and was charged with first degree murder.

Wurl was found to have been convicted in Fairfax City, Virginia for burglary and wounding, so a charge of being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun was added.

Paid to the tipster: $4,000.