MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Memphis Police shut down a sports bar Wednesday morning, deeming it a nuisance, and arrested its manager.
Memphis Mayor Paul Young, Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis, and other city leaders spoke to reporters outside of Infiniti Sports Bar & Grill on North Watkins Road and announced the closure just after 11:30 a.m. on May 14.
Mayor Young called the venue and similar nuisances across the city “hubs of violence.” Young said the bar has been “harboring criminal activity for quite a while now.”
Chief Davis called the bar, known as Club Infiniti, a hot spot for criminal activity. Throughout the first five months of 2025, Davis said MPD responded to 26 calls at the bar, including four homicides. One of those homicides was the first of the year recorded in Memphis. Over the past year, MPD said officers have responded to 264 calls for service within a one-tenth-mile radius of the business. Fourteen of those calls involved violent crimes, police said. Chief Davis also said that, within the past two years, MPD has responded to 93 calls at the bar itself, including homicides, shots fired, armed parties and more.
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Most recently, two people were killed and three others injured in a shooting at the venue. That mass shooting occurred less than a week before authorities closed it as a nuisance. CrimeStoppers is offering a $4,000 reward for anyone who has information on the person or people responsible for that shooting.
“A little over a week ago there was a mass shooting at this location. But the investigation that MPD did confirmed that that was not by any means an isolated incident,” said Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy.
MPD said the club’s manager, 57-year-old John Curry, was storing and selling liquor without a license. Police charged Curry with possession of unstamped liquor over three gallons, unlawful sale of alcoholic beverages, storage of liquor for sale, dispensing alcoholic beverages without a license, and driving while license suspended or revoked.
Davis said other closings could be on the horizon.
“This is not a one-and-done,” Davis said. “There are other properties on our radar, and more actions are coming. Every business owner in this city has a choice: be part of the solution or be held accountable.”
Both Young and Davis thanked State Rep. Antonio Parkinson, who recently passed legislation to expedite nuisance closures. That legislation goes into effect in July.
“When we shut down nuisance businesses, it removes the gathering places for criminal activities and sends a strong message to other irresponsible property and business owners: this will no longer be tolerated in our city,” Parkinson said.
Mayor Young addressed the recent shootings in Frayser, saying his office is working on putting in place protective measures which will tackle gun violence, including solutions directed at young people. Chief Davis added that more arrests could follow in the search for a man who was wearing a green shirt on the night of the mass shooting and captured on surveillance cameras.
If you have any information that could help investigators, you’re asked to call CrimeStoppers at 901-528-CASH.
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