SUMMARY: Tennessee has enacted a law requiring medical examiners to test deceased mass shooters for psychotropic and mental health drugs. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will study the interactions between these drugs and other substances found in the shooters’ systems to explore potential correlations. The aim is to gain insights into whether these medications influence such violent acts. Experts caution that any findings would be only one small piece of a complex issue and stress the importance of avoiding stigma against those with mental health disorders. Since 2015, Tennessee has experienced eight mass shootings with four or more deaths.

Tennessee is taking new steps in the search for answers following mass shootings by turning to the medicine cabinet.

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SUMMARY: The recent not guilty verdicts for former officers in the Tyre Nichols case were hard to accept for the community and Nichols’ family. However, federal accountability is forthcoming. Lead prosecutor Paul Hagerman highlighted challenges, noting two key individuals involved in the beating, Desmond Mills and EMTT Martin, were not fully tried at the state level. Mills pled guilty federally in 2023 and cooperated in the state trial. Martin admitted to assaulting Nichols and took a federal plea deal but didn’t testify in state court. His attorney’s situation remains unclear. All five men face federal sentencing next month.

While Wednesday’s verdicts in the state trial are not what most people in Memphis probably expected, all five former officers charged in connection with the beating death of Tyre Nichols will likely soon begin lengthy prison sentences.

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SUMMARY: Regan Prater, a 27-year-old man from Tullahoma, was indicted on charges of arson and carrying an explosive device in connection to a 2019 fire that destroyed the Highlander Research and Education Center in Jefferson County, Tennessee. The center, known for training civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks and John Lewis, was firebombed, destroying historic documents and artifacts. Prater, linked to white supremacist groups, faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. The trial is set for July 15, 2025. Prater had previously served time for setting fire to an adult video store in 2019.

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