While the police continued investigating at Union and Third, a couple of blocks to the south on Beale, it was still a party as usual, with a dancing crowd enjoying the band at Handy Park, July 3, 2011
Doubletree Hotel
While we had been at the fireworks show on Mud Island, a tragedy was unfolding at the Doubletree Hotel on Union at Third downtown, when a man shot his wife’s ex-husband and a police officer after a domestic disturbance. The police were still investigating as the Memphis Redbirds shot off their fireworks after their game, July 3, 2011