Medical student shot dead at Memphis cancer walk

A aesculapian student was changeable and killed astatine a crab locomotion successful Memphis complete nan weekend, authorities said. The suspected slayer — her ex-boyfriend — was charged successful her execution aft fleeing nan segment of nan shooting successful his car, prompting a constabulary pursuit that ended pinch his arrest, officials said.

Ellie Claire Young, 22, was fatally changeable successful nan parking batch of nan visitant halfway astatine Shelby Farms Park conscionable extracurricular of Memphis astatine astir noon Saturday, nan Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. Memphis Fire paramedics pronounced her dormant astatine nan scene. 

Young was getting into her car aft a bosom crab locomotion astatine nan parkland erstwhile different driver pulled up and changeable her, CBS connection WREG reported, citing constabulary and witnesses. Young was a aesculapian student astatine nan University of Tennessee Health Science Center, according to nan station.

Young's ex-boyfriend, Jackson Hopper, 26, is being held without enslaved successful Shelby County, according to jailhouse records. Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy told WREG his agency requested that nary enslaved was granted, pending a hearing, because of nan severity of nan case. 

"The execution of Ellie Young astatine Shelby Farms Park is simply a heartbreaking tragedy, and my deepest condolences spell retired to her family and friends," Mulroy said.

Officers took him into custody Saturday day pursuing a pursuit that culminated successful a tactical maneuver, which caused Hopper to clang his car. It flipped complete onto nan halfway obstruction of a roadway successful Dyer County, immoderate 80 miles northbound of nan tract of nan shooting, video showed.

Cell telephone footage of nan arrest, obtained by WREG, captured nan constabulary consequence arsenic they surrounded Hopper's overturned vehicle. One equipped serviceman tin beryllium heard shouting successful nan video while ordering nan fishy to show his hands and exit nan car. When Hopper did not comply pinch nan instructions to exit, respective officers approached 1 of nan car doors, opened it and appeared to propulsion nan fishy out. Several officers past rushed to swarm Hopper, and astatine slightest 1 of them held him down and appeared to punch him. 

Hopper appears to person 2 achromatic eyes successful nan booking photograph attached to his jailhouse grounds successful Shelby County.

Sheriff Shannon Beasley of Tipton County, whose officers were progressive successful Hopper's arrest, said Tuesday an soul investigation had been opened to reappraisal nan incident.

"We are moving alongside different agencies and officials arsenic we behaviour an soul investigation into this matter," Beasley said successful a statement. "A reappraisal of assemblage camera and in-car camera footage, arsenic good arsenic witnesser statements are being reviewed and released to nan Attorney General's Office. We will reappraisal each pertinent worldly earlier drafting immoderate conclusions and we inquire that everyone do nan same."

CBS News contacted nan territory attorney's agency and nan sheriff's agency successful Shelby County, arsenic good arsenic nan sheriff successful Tipton County, for remark but did not person contiguous replies. 

A GoFundMe group up to screen Young's ceremonial and memorial expenses had raised astir $40,000 arsenic of Wednesday morning.

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