Task Force officers arrested a murder suspect. The Daily Memphian was along for the ride.
Supervisory Deputy Karolina Duda gets ready in her vehicle before a mission to apprehend a fugitive with an outstanding warrant in South Memphis Nov. 26, 2025. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
Karolina Duda sat upright behind the wheel of her gray Jeep Wagoneer, phone to her ear.
“Is it the turd from yesterday?” Duda asked.
“Yep, it’s the bad dude,” a man on the other end responded.
A suspect in a recent homicide was at an apartment complex near Memphis International Airport. Duda and her fellow officers were ready to move in. The suspect allegedly shot and killed a 17-year-old boy just days earlier. It was Warrant Team Bravo’s first call of the day; the sun was barely peeking out.
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Aarron Fleming
Once an intern, he never left, joining the staff full-time in 2022 as an education reporter. He moved to public safety in 2023, where he covered some of the city’s biggest court cases, including the criminal trials for those charged in the deaths of Tyré Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also chronicled the Shelby County Jail and the deaths that have occurred at the facility.
He now provides suburban coverage, focusing on DeSoto County and the surrounding municipalities.
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