Alberto Garcia has been sentenced to death in the murder of five-year-old Ja’Naya Thompson. This sentencing was handed down two and a half years after the heart wrenching discovery of her body in Gulfport. News 25 was in the courtroom…
Facing sentencing for the 2014 murder of Ja’Naya Thompson, Alberto Garcia told a detective he ‘always tries to stay on the straight and narrow.'It could take as long as Thursday to decided Garcia’s sentencing. Facing death or life without parole,…
In a case that broke hearts across the Coast when it happened, then five-year-old Janaya Thompson's killer pleads guilty to capital murder. Alberto Garcia originally pled not guilty in October 2015, but changed his plea in front of Judge Lisa…
An autopsy performed on a Vancleave woman found dead at her home Saturday, January 7th, reveals Elizabeth Corene Jones died from multiple stab wounds and blunt neck injury. The man charged with her murder, 32-year-old Brandon Colby Smith, is in…
The Moss Point man accused of killing a Vancleave mother on Saturday faced a Jackson County judge for his initial appearance in court this afternoon. Judge T. Larry Wilson set a $250,000 bond for 32-year-old Brandon Smith. Smith is charged…
Sunday evening Jackson County Sheriff’s Department arrested Brandon Colby Smith in connection to the murder of a Vancleave woman. That woman was 30 year old Elizabeth Jones, known by most as Corene. She was a mother of four. Jones worked…
The Moss Point man accused of killing a Vancleave mother on Saturday faced a Jackson County judge for his initial court appearance this afternoon. News 25’s Shelby Myers has the details from the courtroom.
A Moss Point man is behind bars now accused of killing a Vancleave woman Saturday night at her home. 32-year-old Brandon Colby Smith is charged with the murder of 30 year old Elizabeth Jones. A motive is still under investigation,…
A Harrison County jury has indicted the five people charged with killing Tena Broadus in September 2015. Kari Parker, Joshua Peterman, and Devin Gregory were all indicted on the charge of first degree murder. Aaron Bobinger and Natasha Sellers were…
A Navy sailor from New Orleans has pleaded not guilty to charges accusing him of stabbing and slashing a transgender woman 119 times in a Jackson County hotel room. Twenty-year-old Dwanya Hickerson is charged with capital murder of 25-year-old Dee…
One Gulfport man will spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering his own uncle. 29 year old Dante Taylor was found guilty of first degree murder. As a habitual offender, he was given the mandatory sentence of…
A coast man pleads guilty to first degree murder on the day he was scheduled to begin his second day of trial. A judged sentenced 44 year old Johnny Owens the third to live in prison. Owens pleaded guilty to…
The trial for a Coast man accused of killing his cousin has been delayed. Twenty-six year-old Chris Fairley was scheduled to appear in court this morning for trial. Fairley is accused of shooting and killing 21-year-old Mark Fairley in the…
The trial for a Coast man accused of killing his cousin has been delayed. Twenty-six year-old Chris Fairley was scheduled to be in court this morning for trial. Fairley is accused of shooting and killing 21-year-old Mark Fairley in the…
Four men have been charged in the death of a senior marketing major at Mississippi State University. Joseph Tillman, from the Delta town of Schlater, was found dead early Sunday from what authorities believe stemmed from an attempted robbery. The…
Life in prison without parole: this is the verdict handed down this morning for Sellers Johnson’s role in the 2013 execution style murder of Joshua Cuellar, who was 15 at the time he was killed. Three others, Damon Clark, Earnest…
Derrick Dearman, the man accused of slaying five people in a Citronelle home in August, will be held without bond as the case goes to a grand jury. Authorities have presented new details of the gun and ax slayings of…
The four teenagers who face charges in the 2013 murder of 15-year-old Joshua Cuellar are set to appear in a Gulfport court room today. Seventeen-year-old Damon Clark pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and 17-year-old Deaundre Holmes pleaded guilty to accessory…
The Gulfport Police Department arrested 19 year old, Deandre Dashawn-Antonio Ball, of Gulfport, on the charge of murder Sunday afternoon. Ball turned himself in to the Biloxi Police Department. He was later transported to the Gulfport Police Department where he…
A Biloxi man was found guilty of shooting and killing his girlfriend’s son following an argument. Forty-seven year-old Rodise Jenkins III represented himself during the trial. Jenkins shot and killed his girlfriend’s son, Anthony Wheaton, after a heated argument in…
On September 14, 2016, at approximately 11:40 P.M., D’Iberville Police Department responded to a reported suicide attempt. Upon officer’s arrival, and entry into the apartment, they located a white male who was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the…
An Alabama sheriff says the suspect in the slaughter of five adults was armed with an axe as he attacked them in their sleep, using the weapon to strike one of his first victims in a reclining chair and then…
One Jackson County man is in custody charged with murder after authorities say he shot his own cousin. Jackson County Sheriff investigators say 57-year-old Mose Ben Wells shot his cousin, 41-year-old Eric Hampton, on McGregor Road in Vancleave. The victim…
The man accused of killing five people over the weekend was extradited from Mississippi to Alabama. Officials say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman entered the Citronelle home belonging to a relative of his girlfriend and murdered five people, including a pregnant woman.…