Pascagoula mother still looking for answers in death of her son

March 9, 2020

A mother is still looking for answers after her son was found dead in Moss Point nearly a year ago.

“I want to know what happened to my son.” Leah Kimble lost her son, Shawn Martin, about a year ago. “March 21^st, I called his phone that Tuesday and he didn’t answer. I didn’t think anything of it. He told me he was going out of town. By that Saturday I got a visitor asking me had I seen my son or talk to him. I was like ‘no, why?’ They said he was missing. I was like missing?”

Martin’s body was found April 13^th in a wooded area in Moss Point. Police say the body was badly decomposed. “Saturday we wanted to look where they last found his truck and we went there and started there first. We organized and then we started searching. I think we were out there for five minutes and I got a phone call telling me that they found him. It was quite disheartening to see my son like that.”

Kimble says she was working with the Moss Point Police Department to figure out the details, but it’s been a year and all major details are still unknown. “They came and took my information, said call them if anything, but more than likely he just doesn’t want to be seen or don’t want to talk to anyone, but he’ll get back in contact with you. After we found his body, I think I had to call and then I asked them if they needed me to come there to do with DNA so they could determine for sure that that was him.”

News 25 reached out to the Moss Point Police Department and we are still awaiting the official statement. The deputy chief tells us they are still waiting on test results to return of evidence found at the scene.

Kimble says she is holding on to her son’s memory. “He was a fun loving, corny guy. He loved to joke around for me.”

She’s hoping to close his case. “Somebody help and come forward with something credible so we can at least resolve this. This is not going to bring my son back, but it would ease some of pain just to know that somebody is paying for what happened.”