Mother Could Lose Custody Rights After Police Officer Shot 11-Year-Old Son
A Sunflower County, Miss., woman could lose custody rights to her children nearly a year after an Indianola police officer shot her 11-year-old son.
A Sunflower County, Miss., woman could lose custody rights to her children nearly a year after an Indianola police officer shot her 11-year-old son.
Federal officials have deployed an ATF mobile unit to Jackson, Miss., to investigate crimes committed with firearms.
Bernice King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter, says the world urgently needs to study and adopt her father’s philosophy of nonviolence.
George County Deputy Jeremy Malone was shot and killed after he stopped a vehicle around 5:15 p.m. on U.S. Route 98 in Rocky Creek.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is investigating reports that someone fired gunshots outside U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s home in Brookhaven, Miss., on Sunday afternoon. No injuries have been reported.
Police have arrested two suspects in the on-campus shooting death of Jackson State University student Jaylen Burns in Columbia, Miss., and Ellisville, Miss.
Mississippi gun violence prevention advocates are calling on lawmakers to act days after the shooting death of Jackson State University student Jaylen Burns, a Chicago native who majored in industrial technology.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, more than six years after the incident, a jury found that Southaven officers involved were not civilly liable for the death of Ismael Lopez. The civil verdict comes years after a decision not to criminally charge the officers involved.
FedEx has fired D’Monterrio Gibson, the Black driver who alleged that two white men chased and shot at him while he was making deliveries in Brookhaven, Miss., in January 2022.
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