Man gets weapon charge in fatal shooting of Memphis officer

Published 10:16 am Monday, October 12, 2015

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A 36-year-old man has been charged with felony possession of a firearm in connection with the fatal shooting of an off-duty Memphis officer, police said Monday.

Memphis police spokesman Louis Brownlee said Lorenzo Clark is a neighbor of 31-year-old Terence Olridge, who died Sunday after being shot multiple times at a home in the Memphis suburb of Cordova.

Brownlee declined to give further details or say whether more charges would be filed in the case.

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Clark was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday. Court records did not show whether he had a lawyer who could be contacted for comment.

Olridge is one of four Memphis officers have been shot to death in just over four years and the second fatally shot in the past 2.5 months.

“It just doesn’t get any easier,” Armstrong told reporters Sunday. “I didn’t think that we’d be here again so soon.”