MEMPHIS, Tenn. — UPDATE 12/18/2020 - Memphis Police have charged a man with attempted murder and aggravated assault in a shooting earlier this month.
27-year-old Charles Dawan Turner is in jail on $75,000 bond.
According to the police affidavit, Turner met the victim on the dating app Tagged, and he picked her up and took her to his apartment. The victim told police she told him to take her home, and when he wouldn't, she took his keys and cell phone and left the apartment, getting into his car.
When she tried to drive out, she said Turner started firing at the car, striking her in the back and wrist, and she crashed. She said Turner fired at least one shot as she got out of the car and tried to run away.
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12/9/2020 - Memphis Police are investigating after a woman was shot and crashed early Wednesday morning in the U of M area.
According to the police report, the woman told police she had met the unnamed suspect on a dating app, Tagged, and had met up with him earlier in the night. She told officers he picked her up and took her to his apartment on Mynders Avenue.
The woman said the man started to force himself on her, and she told him to stop and take her home. When he refused, the woman told police she grabbed his car keys and cell phone and left. She told investigators she got into his car and tried to leave the parking lot, when he came out and started shooting at the car, and that’s when she crashed.
Officers said the woman was shot in the elbow and back, and she was taken to the hospital, where she is in non-critical condition.
Officers found seven shell casings in the apartment parking lot.
No one has been arrested and the investigation is ongoing.