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MPD: Mom goes live on Facebook during shootout with toddler in car
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Memphis mom was charged with child endangerment after she was involved in a rolling shootout last month in Frayser with a toddler in the backseat of her car.
Lashon James, 47, is also charged with reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle.
On May 18, officers responded to a shooting outside the Corning Village Apartments. Witnesses said they saw two males standing across the street from the apartment complex exchange gunfire with someone in a white Ford Fusion.
According to police, surveillance video showed the Ford Fusion exit the Corning Village Apartments before the shots were fired.
Investigators said they were able to link James to the white Ford Fusion and watched a Facebook Live that showed her in the car with her two-year-old daughter while she was shooting a gun and shots were being fired back at her.
Police said the child's father also positively identified James as the person who had his daughter in a vehicle with her during the shooting.
She is scheduled to appear in court on Friday.
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