Lester Street Massacre

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The Lester Street Massacre was a mass murder which took place on March 2, 2008, in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee. Four adults were fatally shot and two children were stabbed to death, while three others, all children, were injured. The perpetrator, 33-year-old Jessie Dotson, who was related to some of the victims, was arrested a few days later. Dotson was convicted of all six murders and sentenced to death for each, receiving a total of six death sentences, currently the most among inmates on Tennessee's death row. He remains on death row and is imprisoned at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee. He continues to maintain his innocence. The case was featured on the A&E true-crime program The First 48, which included portions of Dotson's taped confession, in which he admitted responsibility for the murders. The massacre remains one of the deadliest mass killings and mass shootings in Tennesse's history.

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