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 …
A man suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body, with her limbs amputated, in Louisiana three years ago has been arrested. US Marshals tracked down Carl Tates, 61, in Madison County, Mississippi, on September 7, an affidavit filed in the case said. He’s being held without bond on a fugitive warrant from Texas, …
A Mississippi man has been jailed for allegedly shooting his girlfriend and her parents on Sunday. Deon Woods, 32, has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of domestic violence-aggravated assault, WLOX reported. Deputies arrived on the scene in Long Beach Sunday evening and found the three victims with gunshot wounds. …
An inmate serving a life sentence for rape escaped an Arkansas prison on Friday, apparently with the help of his mother and sister. According to the Arkansas Department of Corrections, Samuel Hartman fled a work detail in a field near the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys. He and an unnamed accomplice reportedly fired on …
A Mississippi woman was arrested last week after she intentionally ran over her own 6-year-old child with her car. A local hospital called Hattiesburg Police when the child was brought in for treatment at about 1 p.m. on Tuesday, WDAM reported. The child’s father also incurred minor injuries in the incident, which police deemed a …
