Police captured a 19-year-old man, Ezekiel Kelly, allegedly responsible for shootings in Memphis that killed four people and injured three others Wednesday night.

While the manhunt was going on, Mayor Jim Strickland spoke at a news conference and condemned the senseless massacre that caused him to tell his citizens to stay home until the suspect was caught.

Kelly allegedly went on a rampage at eight different crime scenes in Memphis, driving around the city shooting people at random. 

He started about 1 a.m. Wednesday, and shot a 24-year-old man in his driveway on Lyndale Avenue.

Later, at about 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday Memphis Police reported two shootings minutes apart at separate locations. One was at East Parkway South where a man was killed in his car, and the other was on Norris Road, where a woman was shot in the leg, but she is expected to survive.

At about 6 p.m., Kelly went on Facebook Live and filmed himself shooting a man in an AutoZone store. The man later died.

On the video, referring to police, Kelly said he was going to “go down to the valley, shoot it out with them in the valley.”

Police said Kelly also carjacked a woman and killed her at Poplar Avenue and North Evergreen Street. 

After that another woman was killed and a man was injured. Another person was carjacked, but miraculously wasn’t injured. 

In one of the incidents, Kelly wrecked his car and started running in front of cars  waving his gun in the air. He pulled a woman out of a car and shot her, then he drove away in her car. 

Kelly then fled into Mississippi in the last car he had stolen.  

The manhunt began at about 6 p.m. Wednesday after police were informed about the Facebook streaming, and they warned residents to stay inside. 

“If you do not need to be out, please stay home!” the City of Memphis said on Twitter.

Kelly was arrested about two hours after police began their search. He crashed the stolen car during a chase and was apprehended.

The suspect is expected to face multiple felony charges and was transported to jail to be formally booked.

It was reported by the New York Times that the 19-year-old had a criminal record. In 2020, when he was 17, he was charged with two counts of attempted  first-degree murder, firearm possession and reckless endangerment. He was sentenced to three years in prison for a lesser charge but was out in 11 months and released in March of 2022. 

“If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive,” the angry mayor said.