Two Mississippi police officers were shot Thursday morning, one fatally, during a hostage situation that turned into a standoff. Randy Tyler, a retired Ridgeland police chief who has worked with the Madison Police Department for seven years, was shot and killed at about 9:30 a.m. after hours of negotiations and tense waiting, WLBT reported. A …
Alabama authorities have arrested a man suspected of opening fire at a Mississippi Cinco de Mayo celebration Friday night, killing a 19-year-old man and wounding six others. Fadarius Davon Williams is being held in the Mobile County Jail awaiting extradition, WLOX reported. The incident took place at about 11 p.m. at The Scratch Kitchen in …
A Florida woman obtained a protection order and moved out of state to get away from her boyfriend, but he tracked her down to Mississippi. Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson said deputies fond Becky Endres, 62, dead in her Gulfport apartment with Andrew Luckhurst, 44, still there. Investigators say Luckhurst beat and strangled Endres, who …
A Mississippi minister and educator has been accused of sex acts with several children he met through his extensive work with children. Daniel Paul Harris, 44, was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts of sexual abuse, two counts of sexual battery, and unnatural intercourse, the Olive Branch Police Department said. While police said …
Six teenagers where shot — two fatally — early Sunday morning at a house party in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, officials said. A 16-year-old victim and an 18-year-old victim died at University Medical Center in New Orleans, where they were taken after the shooting One of the other four victims was said to be in …
A Mississippi woman is behind bars after a graphic video posted to social media showed her committing a sex act with a dog. The Jones County Sheriff’s Department charged Denise Frazier, 19, with unnatural intercourse and aggravated cruelty to an animal, WDAM reported. The sheriff’s department says it was tipped to the incident by a …
Investigators have arrested two people for the murder of a missing man from Hinds County found dead on the Mississippi coast on Monday. Cody Smith, 24, was reported missing in Hinds County in December. In late March, investigators learned that Smith was last seen further south, in Harrison County, and contacted the sheriff’s department there, …
A Mississippi woman was arrested early Saturday and charged with the shooting death of her husband during an argument that was captured on Facebook Live. The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office said that the 28-year-old victim was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound just before 8 a.m. Saturday. Deputies arrested Kadejah Brown, …
Four people have been charged with killing an Arkansas high school senior who was found shot to death last week in a national forest in Mississippi. Fredarrious Wilson, of West Memphis, Arkansas, was reported missing by his family on March 5. A U.S. Forest Service employee found his body in a remote area of the …
The husband of a Mississippi woman missing since Tuesday night has been arrested for murder, even as investigators search the Big Black River for her body. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 36-year-old Ebony Owens was last seen Tuesday night and reported missing when she didn’t show up for work on Wednesday. Investigators found her burned out …
Investigators found the burned out car of a missing Mississippi woman early Wednesday, some 12 to 14 hours after she was reported missing by her family. Ebony Owens, 36, was last seen near Interstate 20 in Clinton Tuesday night, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office said. The burned Acura was found around 6 a.m. Wednesday near …
The 50-year-old parents of a newborn found dead in a garbage bag in 1992 have been arrested on first degree murder charges in the baby girl’s death. Inga Johansen Carriere and Andrew K. Carriere II have been booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility in Louisiana pending extradition to Mississippi, where the infant’s body was …
