Lester Street Tragedy: Police at Apartment of Victim's Sister

Reported by: Kevin Holmes
Email: kholmes@myeyewitnessnews.com
From : www.myeyewitnessnews.com

Memphis, TN - Police officers from the Organized Crime Unit have been in and out of the Goodwill Village Apartment complex in North Memphis since early Thursday afternoon, March 6, 2008. The sister of one of the victims, Cecil Dotson lives in that complex.

Memphis Police Officers (The Swat Team and Patrolmen) first swarmed the apartment around 11:00 a.m. Thursday. Investigators say Nicole Dotson wasn't home at the time, and that she was at the Criminal Justice Center. While talking to investigators Dotson received a call on her cell phone. The number on Dotson's Caller I.D. showed the call was coming from inside her apartment, but Nicole Dotson told Investigators no one should've been inside her apartment. When the Swat Team arrived, they found nothing.

Police have guns drawn as they prepare to enter the apartment of a sister of one of the victims of the Lester Street massacre.

Around 5:00 p.m., nearly a dozen members of the Organized Crime Unit stopped by the apartment. They canvassed the area and left ten minutes later with no one in custody. At 7:45p.m., three patrolmen rushed to the empty apartment but found nothing. The screen door to Nicole Dotson's apartment was busted open. It's unclear if that was done by officers or by someone else.

So far no one has been arrested in connection with the six murders on Lester Street. The Crime Stoppers reward is now at $81,000; $50,000 from the State, $30,000 from Memphis City Council and $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.

If you know anything about this mass murder, call Crime Stoppers at (901) 528-CASH.