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Three people were killed and eight others injured by gunfire at a party to celebrate a local school’s football victory at a trail in Mississippi early Saturday, according to the local sheriff.
Jasper County schools were on a soft lock down from 11:30 Friday morning after the sheriff’s office was notified of a mass shooting threat in the county.
Suspects are being sought in the shooting, the sheriff said. The three victims were identified as Martel Gibson, 25, of Durant; Shundra Chestnut, 19, of Kosciusko; and John Jenkins, 19, of Durant.
Approximately four hours before the scheduled time of execution on May 7, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 8-1 to grant Manning a stay of execution. The judges gave no reason for this decision. [54] On July 25, 2013, the Mississippi Supreme Court reversed its earlier 5–4 ruling preventing the testing of fingerprints and DNA evidence.
On the night of November 29, 2006, Avis Banks, a daycare worker, was found shot and stabbed to death in the garage of her Ridgeland, Mississippi home. [4] Her body was discovered by her fiance Keyon Pittman, and it appeared as if the perpetrator had kicked in their back door. [8] After discovering the body, Pittman called his co-worker Carla ...
The Hardeeville Police Department responded to a call at Mercy Circle apartments, near the post office, at around 1:37 a.m. Tuesday where they discovered a man had been shot to death.
Mississippi Today was founded in 2016 by former Netscape president and CEO Jim Barksdale and his wife, Donna, alongside former NBC chairman Andrew Lack. [2] [3] In 2023, Mississippi Today won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for their investigation of the Mississippi welfare funds scandal.