Lydian Coombs
Digital Content Producer
Memphis, Tennessee
Lydian is a Memphis native who joined Action News 5 as a digital content producer in May 2022. She graduated from the University of Memphis in 2021 with a Bachelor's in Journalism and a minor in Biology.
Fun fact - her parents' engagement was actually broadcasted live on WMC-TV during the New Year's Eve guitar drop on Beale Street in 1995.
In the middle of the night, one pilot’s crash pad became a crime scene.
The Haywood County (Tenn.) Sheriff’s Office said deputies received a call around 1 p.m. Saturday of a large number of cow heads seen in a Solid Waste dumpster.
Memphis Police Chief CJ Davis sent a request to the Tennessee Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission for the decertification of all five former Memphis police officers charged in the death of Nichols.
A 40-year-old woman is facing charges after being accused of attacking her 97-year-old grandmother, according to police.
She allegedly told police her boyfriend was fatally shot after they lured a drug dealer with plans to rob him at gunpoint.
The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a home on Piermont Street at around 6:45 p.m. after they say Najja Simmons called 911 to report that he had just shot his stepfather.
A FedEx employee has died at a facility in Tennessee this week.
Police arrested one suspect after a hostage situation in which a family was followed home from a gas station, forced inside and robbed at gunpoint, police say.
A man with several active warrants was charged with assaulting an officer and evading arrest, among other charges, after police initiated a traffic stop in the early hours of Monday morning.
Collierville police are looking for four suspects accused of stealing a new car from a Mercedes-Benz dealership on Thursday after two held an employee at gunpoint.
Authorities confirmed a body was found in South Memphis, but no confirmation of the crime scene being related to Eliza Fletcher’s disappearance.
Bartlett police have charged a man with aggravated assault after being able to identify him after he left his wallet in a stolen car that he abandoned after wrecking into a field.
A Tennessee man has been sentenced to three decades in prison for abusing a young girl for several years.
