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Hatcher, S. Bough, S. Smith, 24 S. Page, S. Please support our work with a donation. Beasley, Jr. See Tenn. Code Ann. The trial court sentenced the Defendant to concurrent sentences of forty years for both counts of attempted first degree murder.

The trial court also imposed a ten- year sentence for the employment of a firearm conviction and ordered that six years of that sentence be served at one hundred percent. The trial court ordered that the sentence for the employment of a firearm conviction be served consecutively to the sentences for the attempted first degree murder convictions, for a total effective sentence of fifty years.

Following our review, we affirm the judgments of the trial court. Robert C. Brooks on appeal and Coleman W. Garrett at trial , Memphis, Tennessee, for the appellant, Rodney Turner. Robert E. Cooper, Jr. When Officer Falatko stepped out of his patrol car, the victim, Terry Higgs, came running up to him.

Officer Falatko testified that Mr. Higgs told Officer Falatko that the men were running along a nearby fence that separated two apartment complexes. Officer Falatko testified that he and Mr.

Almost immediately, one of the men shot at Officer Falatko and Mr. Higgs behind him to protect Mr. Officer Falatko pulled out his gun and shot at the Defendant three times, hitting him on the third shot. The men with the shotgun and the other pistol took cover behind some nearby dumpsters and continued to shoot at Officer Falatko.

The man in the red shirt abandoned the Defendant when more police officers arrived to assist Officer Falatko. When Officer Henry arrived on the scene, he saw the Defendant hanging from the fence and a man in a red shirt trying to help the Defendant before running away.

In the neighboring apartment complex, witnesses saw a man wearing a red shirt and another man run into an apartment after the shooting.

A search of the apartment revealed a red shirt with what appeared to be blood on it, a pistol, and a shotgun. The derringer was in working order and had two spent casings in it, meaning that it had been fired. The spent shell casings found by the fence matched the shotgun recovered from the apartment.

According to Mr. Higgs, after he got off the phone with the police he went outside to see if he could find his car and he saw a man with a shotgun. Higgs testified that he ran back into his house and slammed the door. When Officer Falatko arrived, Mr. Higgs went outside to tell him about the men.

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