A relative has identified three of the victims she says were murdered by her uncle in a three-scene shooting spree in Memphis on Saturday.
As CrimeOnline reported, Mavis Christian Jr, 50, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound hours after the bodies of three women and a 13-year-old girl were found across south Memphis. Another teen girl, 15, was wounded but is expected to survive.
Police responded to a shooting in Southwest Memphis just after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, where they found the bodies of a woman and the 13-year-old and the wounded 15-year-old. Selise Manuel said those victims were her sister, Lateisha Bobo, and her daughters, 13-year-old Tori and 15-year-old Taylor, WREG reported.
After that shooting, Christian traveled to Southeast Memphis, where he shot and killed Ruby Manuel, Selise Manuel’s mother. The fifth victim, found shot dead in a home less than a mile from Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in the Whitehaven neighborhood, has not been identified, but Memphis Police were called to the same home five years ago after Christian beat his estranged wife with a baseball bat.
Relatives were at the home on Sunday but declined to speak with reporters.
Police previously said that Christian was related to all five victims.
Selise Manuel said her surviving niece “is doing okay.”
“She’s up, alert, talking, joking,” said Manuel. “Emotionally, she’s sad. She lost her sister, her mother, and her grandmother all in some hours.”
Manuel told the television station she believes the shooting may have stemmed from a dispute with the family members over her late grandmother’s home in Southwest Memphis, where the Bobos were found.
“He threatened my mother a few times before and my sister a few times, but we didn’t think much of it even though we should have because he went to jail for attempted murder,” she said.
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[Featured image: Ruby Manuel and Lateisha Bobo/Facebook]
