GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A Gulfport man will serve 30 years behind bars after pleading guilty to manslaughter. Fifty-one-year-old Octavius Louis Benton Sr. stabbed 44-year-old Damien Lindsey to death in August 2023. The stabbing happened after Lindsey hit Benton’s wheelchair bound…
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- A 17-year-old in Gulfport recently pled guilty to manslaughter for the shooting death of a 19-year-old woman. The case began in August 2023 when Gulfport Police Department was called to the Wellington Place Apartments regarding a shooting.…
LUCEDALE, Miss. (WXXV)- A Lucedale man is charged with manslaughter after a Friday shooting. Thirty-eight-year-old George Buckley was killed in that shooting Friday night which happened on CF Ward Road. Twenty-year-old…
A Gulfport man pled guilty to a manslaughter case from Stone County and a drive-by shooting from Gulfport. 21-year-old Jermaine Mayers was sentenced to a total of 50 years with ten years suspended, leaving 40 years to serve in the…
Gulfport Police say a man wanted for manslaughter in a case dating back to this past November is now in custody. 27-year-old Ellis Townsend turned himself in to police on Friday. He was taken to the Harrison County jail and…
Gulfport Police are searching for a man wanted for manslaughter in a case dating back to this past November. Gulfport Police say Ellis Townsend assaulted a 75-year-old just before 11:30 the morning of November 18th, 2024. Townsend was on duty…
On February 7, 2024, a Jackson County jury found Derrick Wayne Chavers, 38 years old, of Lucedale, guilty of two counts of Manslaughter and a count of Aggravated Assault. Chavers was staying at a camp in Leakesville when he showed…
Gulfport, Mississippi – Eighteen-year-old Lional Jackson, of Gulfport, pled guilty to robbing a sixteen-year-old victim on October 23, 2021, and to shooting and killing twenty-five-year-old Kerry Young on July 3, 2022. Jackson entered his guilty pleas on Monday in front…
Gulfport Police announced the arrest of two people in connection with the fatal Gulfport accident 25-year-old Bryan Ortiz and 26-year-old Wandaliz Rosario were arrested on January 29 and charged with one count of manslaughter. Ortiz was driving the car that…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter retrial for the man who fatally shot New Orleans Saints star Will Smith almost eight years ago was delayed Tuesday after an alternate juror dropped out. Twelve jurors and two alternates were chosen Monday for the…
Gulfport, Miss. – District Attorney Crosby Parker announced today that Demonte Lavell Williams of Gulfport was sentenced yesterday by Circuit Court Judge Christopher Schmidt to the maximum sentence for manslaughter of twenty years to serve in the custody of the…
Gulfport, Miss. – Twenty-nine year-old Demonte Lavell Williams of Gulfport was convicted of Manslaughter late last week after a four-day jury trial. After deliberating for close to two hours, the jury returned its guilty verdict. Judge Christopher Schmidt presided over…
On August 26, 2023, the Gulfport Police Department arrested 15-year-old Kavion Dakari Hannibal and 15-year-old Desean Curtis Cooper and charged them each with one count of Manslaughter. On August 26, 2023, at approximately 12:54 a.m., the Gulfport Police Department responded…
A Carriere woman has been indicted two years after she was behind the wheel in a wreck that injured two others injured and another dead. District Attorney W. Crosby Parker said 44-year-old Angela James was indicted on four counts of…
A Pass Christian man was found guilty Thursday in the 2021 killing of a man at the Third Base Lounge in Bay St. Louis. 35-year-old Joseph Haynes was found guilty of manslaughter after a three-day trial. The jury took just…
A man identified as the shooter in a Saturday evening shooting on Briarfield Avenue has been charged with manslaughter. 30-year-old James McMorris Jr. was charged with manslaughter. He was taken…
A Biloxi man will serve an additional 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter. 29-year-old Christopher Bridges Gholar pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Donald Beryle Ratcliff. Gholar admitted to assaulting Ratcliff, 47, while both were…
Gulfport, Mississippi – District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced that Cassius Vaughn Hanzy, 18 years-old now, but 16 years-old at the time of the crime, of Gulfport, pled guilty on Monday to killing 17-year-old Caleb Mosley. After accepting the plea,…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former police officer in Mississippi received a five-year prison sentence Wednesday for the 2019 beating death of a man who was pulled from a vehicle during a manhunt. The former Jackson detective, Anthony Fox, was…
A D'Iberville man has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a neighbor at his apartment complex. D'Iberville Police Chief Shannon Nobles said police got a 911 call about…
The Jackson County Jail inmate who was critically injured during a fight with another inmate last week died this afternoon. Sheriff Mike Ezell says 47-year-old Donald Ratcliff of Ocean Springs passed away around 4:45. He was hospitalized at USA…
Jackson County Sheriff's Office has arrested a juvenile in the Wednesday morning shooting death of a man found lying in the road in Gulf Park Estates. Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a press release that deputies responded to a call…
A Gulfport man has been sentenced to 40 years with 20 years to serve in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and armed robbery. According to District Attorney Joel Smith, 21-year-old Xavier Lamar Simmons of Gulfport entered…
A 19-year-old was arrested this weekend by Gulfport police on one count of manslaughter. Around 1 a.m. on Saturday morning, police responded to Memorial Hospital in reference to a juvenile shooting victim who later died from his…