Friday marks the anniversary of the day Kimberly Watts was murdered in her Long Beach home. Forty-eight year-old Kimberly Watts was murdered inside her own home and to this day any information pertaining to her case is being withheld. Now,…
The Louisiana Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from a man convicted of killing a French Quarter dancer and dismembering her body. All seven justices initialed the action sheet, denying the request from Terry Speaks, who is serving…
District Attorney Joel Smith announced today that Kari Michelle Parker, age 36, of Gulfport, pled guilty to Second Degree Murder today in the Harrison County Courthouse. Judge Roger Clark accepted the plea. Parker was originally indicted by the Grand Jury…
The man accused of killing a Pascagoula woman in Texas was found guilty of murder. According to the Dallas Morning News reporter Valerie Wigglesworth, a jury found 28-year-old Jason Lowe guilty of murdering his then girlfriend Jessie Bardwell. Bardwell moved…
Around 1503 (3:03pm), a representative form the U.S. Marshall task force contacted the Ocean Springs Police Department to advise the Criminal Investigation Division that they have apprehended the wanted fugitive (Nicky J. Johns) for Murder after a vehicle pursuit that…
A Gulfport man is arrested after allegedly shooting his younger brother multiple times in Poplarville. Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department arrested 60-year-old Steven Stuart Tuesday night after his 53-year-old brother, John Stuart, was killed in his home on Newman Road.…
Multiple authorities are now teaming up to track down the suspect who shot a man outside a hotel in Ocean Springs on Labor Day. Police are looking for 37-year-old Nicky Johns of Tennessee after a dead body was found in…
Criminal Investigation is releasing the identity of the victim murdered at an Ocean Springs Travel Lodge Hotel as 37-year-old Christopher B. Rochelle of Columbia, TN. Suspect Nicky J. Johns is charged with the murder and is still at large and…
On September 4th 2017 at 1552hrs (3:52pm) it was reported that a dead body was in the parking lot of the Travel Lodge Hotel here in the City of Ocean Springs. Officers arrived on scene and observed a white male…
A Gulfport man pleads guilty to accessory after the fact in the murder trial of Tena Broadus. According to the District Attorney’s Office, 32-year-old Aaron Bobinger pled guilty in the Harrison County Courthouse. He will be sentenced on October 2nd.…
A woman pleaded guilty to first degree murder this morning for the 2015 murder for hire of her husband in Stone County. Judge Christopher Schmidt sentenced Evelyn Garrison to life behind bars for her role in the beating death of…
News 25's Laurene Callander tells us more about the search for the suspects involved in a shooting of a police officer.
News 25's Laurene Callander tells us more about the sentencing of 20 year-old Rashad Johnson in capital murder case beginning today.
On July 14, 2017, the Gulfport Police Department arrested 31-year-old James Christopher Woodard, homeless, on the charge of Aggravated Assault. The arrest was the result of a patrol response, at 12:18 p.m., to a homeless camp in the area of…
Today justice for the family of a transgender woman killed by a Navy sailor last July in Jackson County. Dwanya Hickerson met Dee Whigham online, they went to a hotel in St. Martin, had sex and then Hickerson stabbed Whigham…
Today justice for the family of a transgender woman killed by a Navy sailor last July in Jackson County. Dwanya Hickerson met Dee Whigham online, they went to a hotel in St. Martin, had sex, and then Hickerson stabbed Whigham…
The three teenagers accused of killing six-year-old Kingston Frazier during a carjacking in Jackson were in court today for their preliminary hearings. The case against 19-year-old Byron McBride has been bound over to a grand jury. He will be held…
The Mobile District Attorney’s Office announced three new indictments against murder suspect Steven Mason, who is accused of killing 24-year-old Biloxi native Ke’Lei Morris in 2015. According to Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Wright, Mason asked another man to kill three…
New details in the shooting that took place Sunday night in Harrison County. The charges against 19-year-old David Ryals have been upgraded from aggravated assault to murder after the victim, 21-year-old Blake Carroll, died of his injuries at the hospital.…
Another person is behind bars in connection to the murder of Trevues Martin, the 20-year-old who was found dead in the front seat of his vehicle hours before his 21st birthday. Gulfport police arrested 18-year-old Kalisha Crockett Friday evening. Crockett…
The case for the capital murder suspect accused of killing a man in Latimer will be sent to the grand jury after Thomas Stafford waived his preliminary hearing this morning in Jackson County. The 40-year-old is accused of murdering his…
The trial for the father accused of killing his one-year-old daughter in Hancock County is expected to begin this week. Oren Lewis is charged with capital murder. In December 2013 his daughter Maleah Bush allegedly fell off a bed while…
The capital murder suspect accused of killing a man in Latimer waived his preliminary hearing in Jackson County this morning. Forty-year-old Thomas Stafford is accused of murdering his roommate, 65-year-old Jerry Kirkendall, by strangulation before stuffing his body into a…
A Jackson County grand jury indicts a Moss Point man for second degree murder on top of another murder charge. Thirty-four year-old Brandon Colby Smith was charged with the murder of Elizabeth Corene Jones back in January. Jones was found…