Gautier police have identified the victim in the October 30th homicide at Singing River Apartments. The victim has been identified as 69-year-old Stephen Wyatt Cheak. According to police, Cheak was attacked at his residence, being stabbed multiple times. He succumbed…
The Gautier Police Department is currently investigating a murder that occurred at the Singing River Apartments on Gautier-Vancleave Road. Just after 5 a.m., Gautier police officers were called to the apartment complex for an assault that had taken place. Upon…
On September 28th, 2019, detectives began investigating a homicide at Studio 6 in Pascagoula. According to the Pascagoula Police Department, the victim has been identified as 63-year-old Manuel Flores, who is originally from San Diego, CA. The family has been…
Gulfport Police are leading an investigation into the shooting death of a Biloxi Police officer on Sunday night. About 10:15 p.m., the suspect approached an officer in the parking lot of the Biloxi Public Safety Center, where the Biloxi Police…
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of Shawn Martin whose body was found in Moss Point on April 13th. In the meantime, friends and family were in Pascagoula remembering and honoring his life. Shawn’s cousin, April Martin, said, “Shawn was…
Moss Point Police are actively investigating a homicide stemming from remains discovered Saturday, April 13 2019, in a wooded area near Molden Street. Police responded to the area. On April 22nd, a positive identification was made as 26 year old…
Gulfport police are investigating a homicide that left one man dead. Police responded to the home to find 55-year-old Eric Harris dead from a gunshot wound. He is the fifth homicide victim in Gulfport since February 1st. “He was always…
Yesterday afternoon, a mother of two was murdered in her apartment in Jackson County. Estranged husband and accused murderer Joe Quincy McCord appeared in front of a judge for the first time. In handcuffs, Joe Quincy McCord entered the Pascagoula…
District Attorney Joel Smith announced today that Myrick Curtis Laneaux, age 29, pled guilty in the July 2016 homicides of Kristina Quintini and Norris Demetris Mueller of Bay St. Louis. Laneaux pled guilty to two counts of Manslaughter and a…
Authorities are investigating the death of 51-year-old Sherry Johnson in Stone County as a homicide. Johnson was found dead in her home on Johnson Road Wednesday. Stone County investigator Ray Boggs tells News 25 it is premature to know how…
The body of a man found in Gulfport today has been identified as a Pass Christian man who has been missing since early this morning. Sixty-year-old Kenneth Charlot was first reported missing from his Pass Christian home on Seal Avenue…
Moss Point police continue to investigate a homicide after a 24-year-old man was found dead this morning. At 7:22 a.m., police responded to a call about a suspicious vehicle at the old Ed Mayo Junior High building off Orange Grove…
Hancock County Investigator Glenn Grannan says 70-year-old Terry Smith and his son, 46-year-old Carl Smith, have both been arrested in the shooting death of Philip Whitaker. The two were arrested after Whitaker's van was found in Poplarville at Ponderosa Trace…
The George County Sheriff’s Department has captured one suspect in connection to a fatal stabbing that took place Tuesday in the Barton Basin community in the area of Salem Campground Road. When deputies arrived on scene they found 41-year-old Christopher…
The George County Sheriff’s Department is searching for two people wanted for questioning related to a homicide investigation following a fatal stabbing Tuesday. Investigators say the stabbing happened in the Barton Basin community in the area of Salem Campground Road.…
The suspect wanted in a homicide in Gulfport this morning is now in custody. Police say 44-year-old Marcos Hosey was arrested without incident around noon today. Police towed his car from an apartment complex on Loposser Avenue. Hosey is accused…
Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove says 43-year-old Gulfport resident Kari Whitley was found dead inside of a Legacy at Gulf Pointe apartment on Lindh Road at 3:01 this afternoon. Authorities are investigating her death as a homicide. There is a…
A California man wanted by Sacramento police for a triple homicide in October was arrested on the Gulf Coast today. Jerod Watson was arrested by Biloxi police and is being held in the Harrison County Adult Detention center. News 25…
Police in a small Mississippi city say they have discovered the bodies of two Catholic nuns. The women were found in their home and authorities believe they are homicide victims. Police were called to check on the nuns when they…
The preliminary autopsy results of the double murder in Bay St. Louis over the weekend are in. Twenty-eight year-old Kristina Quintini died from multiple gunshot wounds and Hancock County Coroner Jim Faulk tells News 25 that 29-year-old Demetrius Mueller died…
Jackson County authorities are continuing their investigation into a homicide at a hotel over the weekend. They are looking for a man wanted for questioning in regard to the stabbing death of a transgender woman at the Best Western in…
The death of an inmate in Green County is being treated as a homicide. Inmate Howard Payton died in the South Mississippi Correctional Institution around 8 p.m. last night. Payton was in prison for kidnapping and three counts of rape…
An arrest has been made in the death of Hancock County resident Jeremy Fountain. Drew Bourgeois was arrested in Metairie, Louisiana last night and is being held there on numerous charges including Waveland PD’s warrant for murder. Jeremy Fountain’s body…
On March 23, 2016 the Mississippi State Crime Lab in Jackson, Mississippi conducted an autopsy on Donta Lashawn Banks. The cause of death was determined to be from a gunshot to the head. The complete results of the autopsy are…