State troopers want to stop speeders. Drivers are crashing out.
Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper Devonte Quinn conducts a traffic stop on Interstate 40 on Oct. 18, 2023. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A routine traffic stop turned into a high-speed chase that ended in a crash into a local high school.
Cameron Ross, 35, was arrested Oct. 7 after leading a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper on a chase that ended with his car colliding into KIPP Memphis Collegiate High in North Memphis.
Ross was arrested with help from Homeland Security and Internal Revenue Service agents, both which are present in the city as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
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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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