Memphis police chief Cerelyn Davis’s handgun was stolen from a vehicle mid-afternoon Sunday while she was inside the Ferguson Bath, Kitchen and Lighting Gallery in the Memphis neighborhood of Cordova.
Davis was a passenger in a 2018 Porsche Panamera and her husband was the driver. He parked to go insider the bath and lighting store and Davis’s gun and a backpack were left in the vehicle, the Daily Memphian reported.
“When they returned to the car, the window of the 2018 Porsche Panamera was smashed and a backpack and the chief’s handgun were missing. Police said the backpack was later found at a different location, but the gun has not been recovered,” the Memphian noted.
The handgun was a in a lockbox and that the lockbox was stolen as well, WREG noted.
Chief Davis released a statement on the theft:
This incident is a vivid reminder that even as a police official, I am not immune to the criminal activity that occurs so blatantly in our city. Carrying my weapons on or near my person has been a career-long practice on and off duty.
Like so many others in our city, I am outraged to have property stolen and angered that my gun may be used unlawfully to commit a crime. This was an unfortunate incident and a reminder of the public safety challenges we face as a community.
This will only strengthen my resolve to get stolen guns off our streets and bring those perpetrators to justice.
Democrat-run Memphis was not immune from the violence that rocked other Democrat-run cities in 2021. Memphis finished 2021 with over 340 homicides, which means “nearly 700 people have died violently in the city in the past two years,” FOX13 observed.
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