A missing teen from Arkansas was found dead Wednesday in a national forest in Mississippi. City of West Memphis police said that Fredarrious Wilson was last seen on March 5, according to WREG. His mother reported seeing him between 4:30 and 5 p.m. that day when he left to see a movie with a classmate. …
Update: A 4-year-old Mississippi boy missing since Friday has been found safe, the Daily Leader said Thursday. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation cancelled an endangered child alert issued for Kenney DeAngelo Evans but did not provide any information about where or how he was found or whetherhe was with a 58-year-old woman investigators had said …
A Mississippi man on a shooting rampage killed six people, including his ex-wife at three separate locations on Friday. Tate County Sheriff Brad Lance said on Facebook that Richard Dale Crum, 52, was taken into custody and has been charged with first degree murder. More charges are expected, he said. The sheriff told CNN the …
A Mississippi woman has been charged with child abuse after she allegedly bit a toddler in her care at a daycare facility in December. The Jones County Sheriff’s Department says they were contacted by a mother who reported finding bite marks on her son’s arm on December 7, WDAM reported. The mother noticed the marks …
A Mississippi veterinarian who shot and killed two police officers this week was killed by a bullet from one of the officers, not from her own weapon as was originally thought. Bay St. Louis Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell said that Amy Brogdon Anderson fired once from the driver’s seat of her car and struck …
The suspect, an Ocean Springs veterinarian, also died at the scene.
A body found stuffed into a truck toolbox in a rural Mississippi county over the weekend has been identified by the county coroner. Pearl River County Coroner Derek Turnage said Tuesday the dead man, 24-year-old Seth Colter Odom, had been shot to death, WXXV reported. Turnage said Odom had been dead for a about a …
Police in Mississippi have arrested a Biloxi man after he “bit the nose off” another man in a casino parking lot. Bay St. Louis police said they were called to the Hollywood Casino parking lot at about 9:30 p.m. on Monday and found the victim “with a disfiguring facial injury.” A quick investigation determined that …
A 12-year-old Mississippi boy is dead after playing Russian roulette with two other minors earlier this week. Jackson Deputy Police Chief Deric Hearn said investigators were initially looking for Markell Noah as a missing person when they found him dead from a gunshot wound at an abandoned house. Police arrested two minors on murder charges …
A white father and son in Mississippi have been arrested and charged with attempted murder for allegedly chasing a Black FedEx driver while shooting at him after he delivered a package to their home in January. The Daily Leader reported that D’Monterrio Gibson, 24, was wearing his FedEx uniform and driving a Hertz rental truck …
Seven fires believed to be arson lit up the skies near Mississippi HBCU Jackson State University early Tuesday morning, including including two predominately Black churches. Early on, Jackson police named Delvin McLaurin as a person of interest in the fires and released photos of him on social media. The Hinds County Sheriff’s Office said a …
A dog carrying a human arm led investigators over the weekend to a decapitated body in an abandoned house in Jackson, Mississippi. According to WAPT, police were called on Saturday about the dog and the arm. Hinds County Coroner Sharon Grisham-Stewart said the rest of the body, minus the head and arm, was found on …
