Neighbors of the Central Gardens neighborhood are waiting to hear from law enforcement regarding an armed man walking “on Peabody (near Cooper)” Monday morning.
Members of the Central Gardens community on the popular neighborhood app, Nextdoor, have been buzzing about a post made by a user named Catherine Goode, who shared a photo of an armed man on the aforementioned street, and said that police had been called around 10:45 a.m.
Shortly after the post was made, some users posted that Grace-St.Luke’s Episcopal School (GSL) had gone on lockdown. A user named Michael Pongetti posted that the “school went on lockdown and sent an alert out to all families with children enrolled that the man was in custody by MPD (Memphis Police Department.)”
Another user, Allie Battle, commented that “GSL sent us a notification that the man was apprehended by the Memphis Police.”
However, the most recent update from a user named Rachel Hildebrand said that they had received a notification from GSL that “he was NOT apprehended.”
Many of the Nextdoor.com posters have questioned Tennessee’s permitless handgun policy. According to the Memphis Police Department’s website, the Tennessee Supreme Court “has previously held that simply being armed in public alone is not a legal basis for officers to detain someone.”
At this time, there is no official statement from the school or the Memphis Police Department.
