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Lucas Finton, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Wed, March 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM UTC
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Pastor Ricky Floyd of the Pursuit of God Church, at the Marathon station on James Road in Frayser, as the station partnered with his church to give away a free $10 worth of gas and chicken wing meals to customers on Wednesday, April 15, 2020. “With the crisis that we have in the city, with the bus system being limited to a Sunday schedule, that means the people that had cars had to overexert their cars and spend on gas. So, our job as a church is to find the gaps in the needs that are not being met and we figured that this was a good way to do it,” said Floyd.
Memphis Pastor Ricky Floyd was shot and killed outside a Downtown bar early Wednesday morning, the Memphis Police Department said.
The Memphis Police Department said officers responded to a shooting at 855 Kentucky St., between the Eagle Distributing Company and Momma's Bar and Grill, before 1:20 a.m. Wednesday. The bar's owner, Eric Bourgeois, said the shooting took place in the street and not a parking lot.
A man was found dead outside the bar. A woman, later identified as 42-year-old Samantha Marion, was detained.
Marion was arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter later Wednesday morning.
Floyd was the senior lead pastor at Pursuit of God Church in Frayser. Floyd was 58 at the time of his death, according to his Facebook page.
Lucas Finton covers crime, policing, jails, the courts and criminal justice policy for The Commercial Appeal. He can be reached by phone or email: (901)208-3922 and Lucas.Finton@commercialappeal.com, and followed on X @LucasFinton.
This article originally appeared on Memphis Commercial Appeal: MPD: Pastor Ricky Floyd killed outside Downtown Memphis bar Wednesday
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