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Alex Bolar, the Frayser teen shot and killed in a city park earlier this month was a latch key kid, according to his father. Ironically, just a little more than 100 yards away from the place where Alex died, Frayser's Youth Visions welcomes latch key kids every school day.
In the air over South Memphis and on the ground in Frayser, Action News 5 was recently along for the ride as the Memphis Police Department cracked down on crime. For police, crime fighting is a numbers game, where the department's Blue CRUSH strategy pinpoints possible crimes down to the exact date and time.
One Memphis neighborhood stays scary all year long - not just the week of Halloween. It's the ghost town of Midtown, but it could become a shopping mecca complete with big box retailers.
