Up to 40 shots ring out during drive-by shooting that injures 2, MPD says

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Two men were injured after gunmen opened fire during a drive-by shooting in the Castalia Heights neighborhood on Tuesday night, police said.

The two shooting victims — identified as an 18- and 21-year-old — were expected to survive their injuries, according to the Memphis Police Department (MPD).

Police said officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to a shooting near Airways Boulevard and East Person Avenue and found three people lying in a grassy field. Two of them were found to have been shot, while a 17-year-old boy with the group appeared to not have been injured by gunfire, MPD said.

One of the men shot told investigators that he walking with his friends when a dark-colored SUV pulled up. Two gunmen from the vehicle — including one through the sunroof — opened fire, he told MPD.

The shooting victim told MPD that he believed up to 40 shots were fired at him and his friends. They then ran off and were later from in the grassy field, police said.

MPD initially said that one person had been in detained. But in a police report released Wednesday, there was no indication that anyone had been charged in the shooting.