Six corrections deputies pleaded not guilty Friday to charges ranging from murder to aggravated assault in the beating and death of a Black man who was having a psychotic episode in a Memphis jail last year. In all, nine Shelby County deputies were charged in September in the October 2022 death of Gershun Freeman, 33, who was an inmate at the county jail. Authorities said the jailers punched, kicked and kneeled on Freeman's back during a confrontation after he ran from his jail cell.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Six of the nine corrections deputies charged in the death of Gershun Freeman pled not guilty on Friday morning. The moments leading up to his in-custody death were captured on video back in October of last year. Stevon Jones and Courtney Parham are facing the most serious charges of second-degree murder and […]
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