2026年7月8日 / 美国东部时间下午6:59 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
孟菲斯一名联邦打击犯罪特遣部队成员于周三在当地枪杀一名男子，这是四天内该特遣部队成员第二次造成致命枪击事件。
田纳西州调查局表示，周三的枪击事件发生在当地时间上午8点30分左右，美国缉毒局特工正在执行谢尔比县的毒品搜查令。美国法警局发言人布雷迪·麦卡伦称，嫌疑人当时身处酒店房间，拒绝向特工开门，因此特工们破门而入。
法警局当日早些时候发布的新闻稿称，该男子在向特遣部队成员指向手枪后被击毙。负责调查此次枪击事件的州调查局随后发布的新闻稿则表述得更为模糊，仅表示“目前仍在调查原因，局势升级后，一名缉毒局特工向房间内开枪，击中一名男子并致其死亡”。
当局尚未确认该男子的身份。据州调查局消息，他至少是自5月以来第四名被该特遣部队成员枪击致死的人。
州调查局称，未造成执法人员受伤。麦卡伦表示，缉毒局的行动团队中至少有一名孟菲斯警察局的当地警员。
孟菲斯安全特遣部队是去年由特朗普总统设立的，旨在将国民警卫队队员和联邦特工部署到他所称的犯罪猖獗的民主党执政城市。尽管向其他城市派遣部队的计划被法院驳回，但田纳西州国民警卫队队员自去年秋天起已作为特遣部队的一部分在孟菲斯执勤。
周日凌晨早些时候，两名国民警卫队队员在市中心追捕过程中，称20岁的泰林·约翰逊持枪朝他们走来，随后将其枪杀。
约翰逊的家人表示，他们从田纳西州调查局得知，约翰逊胸部中了两枪。埃夫尼尔·约翰逊称，他的孙子曾在田纳西州立大学就读，是一名幼儿的父亲，当时正准备协助打理家族生意。
这位祖父呼吁当局公开此次枪击事件的所有视频证据。
“把视频给我看，”他对美联社表示，“请让我看看——那样我才能接受。在那之前，我会一直为我的孙子抗争、发声，直到我生命的最后一刻。”
据州调查局通报，5月13日，孟菲斯安全特遣部队的一名成员在执行逮捕令时也枪杀了另一名男子。官员称，41岁的达林·皮格拉姆伸手去摸腰带上的枪，随后一名缉毒局特工开枪射击。
仅过了一周多，5月21日，该特遣部队内的一名国土安全调查局特工枪杀了25岁的乔纳·尼尔，州调查局表示。尼尔当时持有枪支，并威胁要自残。该局称，目前尚不清楚尼尔是死于枪击，还是自行刺伤所致。
田纳西州调查局负责调查所有此类枪击事件，并将调查结果移交给当地地区检察官。
Second Memphis fatal shooting in 4 days by federal task force, officials say
July 8, 2026 / 6:59 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A member of a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis shot and killed a man there on Wednesday, the second fatal shooting by a task force member in four days.
The Wednesday shooting occurred while U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents were serving a drug warrant out of Shelby County at around 8:30 a.m. local time, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. The suspect was in a hotel room and refused to open the door for agents, so they knocked the door down, U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Brady McCarron said.
A news release from the Marshals Service sent out earlier in the day said the man was killed after pointing a handgun at task force members. A later news release from the state bureau, which is probing the circumstances of the shooting, is less specific. It says only that, “For reasons still under investigation, the situation escalated, resulting in a DEA agent firing into a room, striking a man and killing him.”
Authorities have not identified the man. He’s at least the fourth person since May who died after being shot by a member of the task force, according to the state bureau.
No law enforcement officers were injured, the state bureau said. The DEA team included at least one local Memphis Police Department officer, McCarron said.
The Memphis Safe Task Force was created last year by President Trump as part of an effort to place National Guard troops and federal agents in Democratic-run cities he described as crime-ridden. Although plans to send troops to other cities were blocked by the courts, Tennessee National Guard troops have been serving in Memphis as part of the task force since last fall.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, two Guardsmen fatally shot 20-year-old Tyrin Johnson after they said he turned toward them with a gun during a downtown pursuit.
Johnson’s family says they were told by the TBI that he was shot twice in the chest. Evaniel Johnson said his grandson had taken classes at Tennessee State University, was the father of a young child and was preparing to help lead the family business.
The grandfather called on authorities to release any video evidence of the shooting.
“Show me the video,” he told The Associated Press. “Please show me that — and then I’m OK. Until you show me that, I’m gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there’s no breath in me.”
On May 13, a member of the Memphis Safe Task Force also shot and killed another person while serving an arrest warrant, the state bureau reported. Forty-one-year-old Darrin Pigram had reached for a gun in his waistband before a DEA agent opened fire, officials said.
Just over a week later, on May 21, a Homeland Security Investigations special agent within the task force fatally shot 25-year-old Jonah Neal, the state bureau said. Neal was armed with a gun and was threatening to harm himself, the state bureau said. The agency said it was unclear whether Neal died as a result of the gunshot, or if it was self-inflicted stab wounds.
TBI has been charged with investigating all the shootings and will turn the results over to the local district attorney general.
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