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.
The chief said the officer failed to activate his body camera, used conduct “unbecoming of an officer,” and also used the red dot laser of his taser gun and pointed it at a teenager from a faraway distance.
At least 8.5 kilograms of fentanyl and 20,000 to 30,000 suspected fentanyl pills were confiscated during an LMPD/DEA search on a storage unit on May 16.
Jones County deputies captured 48-year-old Marty Breazeale, of Laurel, overnight after responding to a suspicious person’s complaint near Bok Homa Casino.
Andrew Prudhomme was allegedly shot multiple times by Bennard Craft at Prudhomme’s Vicksburg home. Nearly two years later, Craft has still not gone to trial.
Andrew Prudhomme’s murder case is among the hundreds, possibly thousands, waiting for its day in court and for state medical examiners to process evidence.
“(Robert) Harvey held a gun to the victim’s head, threatened to kill her, hit her multiple times in the face with the gun, and strangled her to the point of nearly passing out,” District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said.
While on the stand, she pointed out that her 14-month-old did receive injuries before while in the care of T’Kia Bevily and her husband Morris Bevily, who’s Jurayah’s father.
Police say that the suspect took the victim around 8 a.m. in the area of North Oak Street and West Dakota Street and the incident was reported to campus police at 10:52 a.m.