Vicksburg detectives said the human remains identified by the state crime lab this week belong to a woman who’s been missing since October, but they’re walking back what originally was deemed a homicide investigation by the department.
In a press conference Wednesday, Gov. Tate Reeves announced “key hirings” to the Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s Leadership Team that, he hopes, will help quell violence across Mississippi.
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From the shooting at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston to the Walmart shooting in El Paso and now the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, hate crimes have been on the increase since 2016, according to the FBI.