A Mississippi teen was jailed on a murder charge Saturday, just hours after he graduated from high school. Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins said Justin Robert Coggins, 18, is believed to have shot 33-year-old Dustin Hoffpauir to death during a domestic dispute. WTVA reported that deputies received the call about a shooting at about 7 …
A Mississippi woman was charged with capital murder on Saturday after her 8-week-old infant died. The infant, Khalysie Lashay Jolley, was rushed to Children’s Hospital of Mississippi in Jackson Thursday afternoon after Pearl police responded to a call about a woman who “repeatedly and forcibly” threw a baby on the road, according to WJTV. The …
The last day of a family-oriented festival at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson was cancelled on Sunday after gunfire broke out the night before. One person was killed by an off-duty Edwards police officer working as security for the Mississippi Mudbug Festival. Investigators believe that person was one of several potential suspects, WAPT reported. …
A pregnant Mississippi woman is dead after she was hit by a stray bullet during a shooting at a club in Marshall County early Sunday morning. Takila Gross, 30, was also the mother of two children, her own mother, Jacqueline Brownlee, told WREG. “She was with a friends and they was just having a little …
The owner of a Mississippi auto repair shop was arrested Thursday after he allegedly shot and killed a customer when the two argued over repairs. Stanley Eckhoff, the 47-year-old owner of Stanley Tire and Auto in Hazlehurst, has been charged with the murder of Christopher Buie, 49, WLBT reports. Police said the two argued over …
A man and a woman in Mississippi have been charged with child abuse — and the man with first degree murder — after a 2-year-old boy died of blunt force trauma earlier this week. The child and another boy who was 2-months-old were under the care of Demeatrice Ashley, 22, who was the father of …
A Mississippi man shot and killed himself in the drive-thru of a Clinton Chick-fil-A restaurant Friday night when he got into an argument with a backseat passenger and pulled out a gun. Clinton police said that Kendarius Vaughn, 23, was driving when he and the passenger began arguing over the order, WLBT reported. Vaughn pulled …
A Mississippi man was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly fatally shooting a pregnant woman whose near full-term baby also died. Brianna Carter, 20, was killed when she was shot multiple times in Jackson on January 8. Carter, who was eight months pregnant, identified Daniel Jones, 21, as the shooter before dying at the hospital, according …
Two Mississippi men have been charged with kidnapping and rape in relation to a missing toddler who disappeared on December 30 and was found 15 miles away the next day. Keldrick J. Magee, 33, has been charged with four counts of rape, one count of sexual battery, and one count of kidnapping, WDAM reported. Kim …
A confession and tip last month from a death row inmate just before his execution led investigators to the body of Felicia Cox, the convicted man’s sister-in-law. David Neal Cox was put to death in Mississippi on November 17 after he halted all appeals of his conviction for the murder of his wife, Kim Kirk …
Investigators in Mississippi uncovered the body of a woman on Sunday after they were tipped to the location by a death row inmate who confessed to killing his sister-in-law just before his execution last month. David Neal Cox was convicted of killing his wife, Kim Kirk Cox, and sexually assaulting his stepdaughter in 2010 and …
A Mississippi woman was arrested by federal agents Tuesday for allegedly trying to hire a hitman over the internet. Jessica Leeann Sledge, 39, has been charged with use of interstate commerce in the commission of a murder-for-hire, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. Sledge made her first court appearance …
