Ronald Terry, 49, once alleged to be the leader of the Memphis branch of the Chicago-based Vice Lords, was found shot to death along with a female companion, Candid Sanders, 36, on Thursday afternoon.
The former local kingpin of the nationwide Vice Lords street gang was executed while he sat in a white Cadillac in Memphis last week, sparking fears among law enforcement officials that violence could break out across Tennessee and inside the state’s prisons.
A Memphis Police Department spokesperson said the investigation is active and she could not share other details.
Around 8 p.m. Thursday, there were two separate “inmate-on-inmate assaults” at the prison, Gilchrist said in a statement. Six prisoners and four correctional officers were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
Gilchrist did not respond to NBC News’ questions about potential gang links in the violence.
An alert also went out late last week to officials across the state warning law enforcement and correctional officers to be vigilant.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was “requested to provide a situational awareness message to law enforcement agencies for general officer safety,” TBI spokesman Josh DeVine told NBC News by email.
“There was no specific threat.”
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