murder

Moss Point man sentenced to life in prison

Moss Point resident Antron McWilliams will spend the rest of his life in prison for first degree murder. McWilliams pled guilty for shooting and killing Dornelle Brown in Pascagoula in January 2016. MDOC has identified Williams as a member of…

Man sentenced in federal hate crime

A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 49 years in prison for the first ever conviction on federal hate crime charges from the killing of a transgender person. A federal judge on Monday sentenced Joshua Vallum, who had previously been…

Woman Charged With DUI Causing Death

One Pass Christian woman is now behind bars charged with felony DUI causing death. Pass Christian assistant Police Chief M.Y. Carbine says 37 year old Natalie Duvernay is charged with the crime. The arrest stemmed from an investigation into a…

Oren Lewis Murder Trial Set To Begin Today

The trial for the father accused of killing his one year old daughter in Hancock County is expected to begin today. Oren Lewis is charged with capital murder. In December 2013 his daughter Maleah Bush alleged fell of a bed…

Grand Jury Indicts Murder Suspect

A grand jury indicts the Rankin County man accused of killing multiple people, wounding others, and stealing cars in Mississippi, New Mexico, and Kansas. A Rankin County grand jury indicted Alex Deaton on charges of first-degree murder, auto theft, and…

Remembering Kari Whitley

Kari Whitley was a woman with a huge heart and she never let anything get her down. Instead of remembering the 43-year-old as a the victim of a heinous Gulfport murder, that’s the way Texas native Laura O’Halloran wants Coast…

Gulfport man charged with murdering his wife

The Gulfport Police Department arrested 48-year-old William Douglas Bryant Jr. of Gulfport on the charge of murdering his wife. Police arrived on scene with Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove to Legacy of Gulf Pointe apartments on Lindh Road around 3…

Arrest made in Gulfport apartment death

On May 3, 2017, the Gulfport Police Department arrested 48-year-old William Douglas Bryant Jr., of Gulfport, on the charge of murder. Bryant’s arrest was the result of a patrol response to Legacy Apartments located at 820 Lindh Road in reference…

Cold case murder arrest

A man wanted in a cold case murder in Texas was arrested in Mississippi earlier today. Officials, including U.S. marshals, arrested 61-year-old David Lee Edds in wooded area in Wayne County this morning. Edds was wanted in the murder of…

Capital murder initial appearance

This afternoon, Thomas Stafford made his initial appearance in a Jackson county courtroom where he faces a capital murder charge. The 40-year-old man is accused of murdering 65-year-old Jerry Kirkendall by strangulation before stuffing his body into a freezer at…

Man charged with felony murder in Harrison County

One Harrison County man is now behind bars after admitting on Facebook to murdering his roommate. Thirty-nine year-old Gabriel Curtis has been given a felony charge of murder. Sheriff Troy Peterson received a call from a Florida resident for a…

First degree murder arrests in George County

Two suspects have been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the shooting of 35-year-old Marcus Jordan. George County Sheriff’s Department responded to a shooting around 8 p.m. last night in the area of TLC Lane in the central…

Man arrested in connection to Gulfport shooting

Authorities are now releasing the name of a Gulfport man who was killed yesterday evening. According to Harrison Country Coroner Gary Hargrove, 48-year-old Robert Walters of Gulfport died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Thirty-four year-old Stephen Redmond was…

Gulfport police searching for murder suspect

The Gulfport Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Stephen Redmond who is wanted on the charge of murder. On April 4, 2017 at approximately 5:22 p.m., patrol officers responded to an address in the 13000 block…

Man accused of killing toddler appears in Hancock County court

A new trial date is set for the Hancock County man facing charges for killing his girlfriend’s baby. Charles Connetti III pleaded not guilty for murdering his girlfriend’s one-year-old son. Connetti entered the plea after appearing in Hancock County court…

Second man charged in Biloxi woman’s murder

Colorado authorities arrested a second man believed to have played a part in the murder of a Biloxi woman. Twenty-six year-old Adam Miller was arrested for the murder of Ke’Lei Morris and is expected to be extradited back to Mobile…

Man charged with killing his mother

An Alabama man has been charged with the murder of his mother. Mobile police arrested 34-year-old Clark Raines and charged him with his mother’s murder. Kay Raines had been reported missing after last being seen at the Beau Rivage in…

Boyfriend under arrest in Gautier murder

On Wednesday, February 8, Amanda Hicks went missing from Gautier. She was last seen with her boyfriend and father of her 15-year-old son, James Vanlaningham Jr. The camper trailer that the couple lived in at Santa Maria RV Park was…

Search for Murder Suspect

According to officials with The Jackson County Sheriff's Department, the man found in a freezer in the Latimer Community died of strangulation. An autopsy performed Wednesday on 65 year old Jery Kirkendall revealed he was strangled. Jackson county authorities believe…

Searching for Jackson County murder suspect

The Jackson County capital murder suspect accused of killing and leaving the body of the victim inside a freezer is now believed to be back on the Coast. The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department tells News 25 Thomas Elliot Stafford returned…

Search continues for suspect in murder

Jackson County investigators are in Mt. Vernon, Alabama this morning searching the stolen car belonging to the man whose body was found Monday morning in a freezer in a Latimer home. Sheriff Mike Ezell says a relative of Thomas Elliot…