Mike Brown

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5 Aug 11

July 3, 2011 - Memphis police officers comfort each other as they weep outside the Doubletree Hotel downtown at Union and Third after an apparent shooting in the hotel. According to sources two people were killed including an officer that was pronounced dead upon arrival at The Med. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
June 20, 2011 - Stephanie Domm, 20, is lifted out of her wheelchair by her direct support team Camilla Bonner (left) and Pauline Jenkins, both with Support Solutions Mid-South, so they can help her stretch. Domm suffers from cerebral palsy, scoliosis, and seizures. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 29, 2011 - Mary Coleman weeps as she embraces the headstone marking the grave of her mother and father, Robert and Mary Cole, at the Memphis National Cemetery on Sunday. Her father served in the Korean war with the Army. The cemetery hosted its annual Memorial Day Service on Sunday.(Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
May 10, 2011 - After weeks of rising to historic levels the Mississippi River reached a crest just shy of the forecasted 48 feet at the Memphis gauge. "It's going to meander around that level for the next 24 to 36 hours," meteorologist Bill Borghoff said. "We're going to pretty much hold onto the crest for a while." (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 5, 2011 - Henry Conner carry rifles and shotguns from a boat docked at the edge of the water on Billion Road as he helps his brother evacuate from a home down the road surrounded by water. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 3, 2011 - (from left) Ricardo Bolanos, 3, looks up at his mother, Blanca Bolanos as her other children, Jesus Bolanos, 2, and Michael Bolanos, 4-months, rest on a bed at the emergency shelter for flood evacuees at Cummings Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 250 East Raines Road in South Memphis. The children were among several dozen evacuees calling the church home after leaving their homes in the Country View Mobile Home Park near the swollen Loosahachie River. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
May 5, 2011 - Jonathan White hunts down night crawlers trying to escape his flooded yard on Quinby Drive so he can use them as bait when he goes fishing later in the day. Storm drains and sewer lines began backing up in the neighborhood creating a foul stench in the air. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 8, 2011 - Lee Powell, stands at the waters edge on the sidewalk that leads down Orchi Road at North Highland. The water from the swollen Wolf River has swallowed several houses in the neighborhood along with Bethesda World Life Christian Center. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 5, 2011 - A horse grazes undisturbed by the rising flood waters creeping into his pasture off Locke Road in Millington. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
May 5, 2011 - Bonnie Dean (left), with an animal rescue unit from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, helps George Edwards rescue some of his dogs from rising water on Locke Road in Millington. Dean traveled with a team from Missouri to be on hand for animal rescues as flood waters continue to rise in and around Shelby County. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 8, 2011 - Downtown resident Sheila Brown lays down on a small sliver of dry land to shoot a photo of the bronze statue of Tom Lee in Tom Lee Park on the 86th anniversary of the day Lee saved 32 people from drowning in the river when the steamboat M.E. Norman capsized.
   
May 10, 2011 - Water overtakes North Mud Island Road leaving the auction street bridge as the only means to get on or off Mud Island. After weeks of rising to historic levels the Mississippi River reached a crest just shy of the forecasted 48 feet at the Memphis gauge. "It's going to meander around that level for the next 24 to 36 hours," meteorologist Bill Borghoff said. "We're going to pretty much hold onto the crest for a while." (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
May 3, 2011 - (from left) Jason Espino, 5, Kevin Gomez, 6, and Anthony Bolanos, 5, pass time watching each other play video games in the emergency shelter for flood evacuees at Cummings Street Missionary Baptist Church located at 250 East Raines Road in South Memphis. The children were among several dozen evacuees calling the church home after leaving their homes in the Country View Mobile Home Park near the swollen Loosahachie River. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 10, 2011 - Cars lie submerged in overflow water from the Wolf River on McMiller Road near Jackson. After weeks of rising to historic levels the Mississippi River reached a crest just shy of the forecasted 48 feet at the Memphis gauge. "It's going to meander around that level for the next 24 to 36 hours," meteorologist Bill Borghoff said. "We're going to pretty much hold onto the crest for a while." (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 9, 2011 - Arael Deleon (left) paddles into position to load his boat with plants as Richard Simmons begins his journey down Walsh Road from Bayless Greenhouses to a waiting truck. The nursery is on high ground but all roads to access the business are underwater. To continue operating, workers are making as many as 20 trips per day hauling plants for deliveries to customers as a way to keep business going. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
May 23, 2011 - Ed and Carolyn Brewer try to find belongings that can be salvaged from their home at 3509 Orchi that is being taken over by mold after having several feet of water inside their home. The couple came home to find a red sticker in their window that informed them the home is unsafe to enter or occupy. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 23, 2011 - Durwin Taylor throws a bed frame out of his cousins home at 3544 Orchi. All the items remaining in the house were being discarded after several feet of water receded from inside the home. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 23, 2011 - Ed and Carolyn Brewer try to find belongings that can be salvaged from their home at 3509 Orchi that is being taken over by mold after having several feet of water inside their home. The couple came home to find a red sticker in their window that informed them the home is unsafe to enter or occupy. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
June 26, 2011 - Saanvi Gundala, 2, clasps her hands with her mother Nalini Gundala during the Pushpa Yagam ceremony at the India Cultural Center and Temple in Eads. Pushpa Yagam is a flower offering ceremony in which the deities are adorned with flowers after worshipers pull the petals from the flowers while chanting the 1,000 names if Vishnu. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 21, 2011 - Green Bay resident Adam Metoxen (left) and Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy hold their hands up as they speed down the track on the Zippin Pippin on opening day of the rebirthed roller coaster at Bay Beach Amusement Park in Green Bay, Wis. Metoxen made a quick stop to go for a spin of the ride on his way into work and Mulroy made the long drive from Memphis to be amongst the first riders. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 30, 2011 - Civil War reenactor Steve Reed, seen through a hole in a tattered Confederate battle flag, rests on his musket while waiting for the Confederate Memorial Service to begin by the main Confederate burial trench at Shiloh National Military Park. The service, which followed the Memorial Day Service at the Shiloh National Cemetery, celebrated and honored those who lost their lives in the bloody Civil War battle and included guest character speakers Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Gen. Joe Way. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
     
  
June 12, 2011 - Harrison Frazar drops his ball after hitting it into the water on 18 during the final day of the FedEx St. Jude Classic at TCP Southwind. After taking the lead on 17, Frazar made bogey on 18 and entered a three-hole playoff with Robert Karlsson. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)
   
May 16, 2011 - Secret Service members wait for Air Force One as it taxis down the runway upon the arrival of President Obama at the 164th Airlift Wing Tennessee National Guard. (Mike Brown/The Commercial Appeal)