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March 2018 (Bolivar County) – Defendant in Cleveland’s Double Homicide receives Life Sentence

Dbryus Story was convicted under a four-count indictment of Capital Murder of Tavoris Marshall, Capital Murder of Kevion Gorman, conspiracy to commit robbery and kidnapping in December 2016. Tavoris Marshall and Kevion Gorman were found shot to death on Martin Luther King Drive in Cleveland, Mississippi.  In December of 2013, Officers arrested Dbryus Story and

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February 2018 (Coahoma County) – Habitual Offender receives Life sentence for Cold Case Murder

District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell announced that Habitual Offender Kelvin Taylor, A/K/A “KT” was found guilty by a jury in Coahoma County of the 2011 murders of Willie Bass A/K/A Bug and Flora Watkins and sentenced to two Life sentences. In September of 2011, Law enforcement reported to Quincy Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi in reference

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January 2018 (Coahoma County) – Coahoma Jury convicts man of Capital Murder of Store Owner

District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell announced that Justin Booker was found guilty of the 2013 death of Davis Goon. Clarksdale Police arrested Justin Booker and two others after 61-year-old Goon was shot outside his family’s store in Clarksdale. The three attempted to rob the store and Goon was shot and killed in the process. Booker

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September 2017 (Tunica County) – Tunica County Jury convicts man of Armed Robbery, Aggravated Assault and Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon

District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell announced today that Cortez Watts was sentenced to a 75-year sentence for Conspiracy, Attempted Armed Robbery, Aggravated Assault and Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. In October of 2016, Tunica County Sheriff’s Department responded to an apartment complex in reference to a shooting. One individual had been shot

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August 2017 (Coahoma County) – Walmart Shooter Convicted and Sentenced

District Attorney Brenda F. Mitchell announced that the shooter that opened fire in the parking lot of Walmart, in Clarksdale, two days before Christmas in 2014 is behind bars. Christian Allen, who is also known as Trey Pulley, shot and killed 26 year-old Brandon Smith in the Walmart parking lot after Smith attempted to squash

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May 2017 (Bolivar County) – Vadell Johnson convicted of Murder and Aggravated Assault

On June 30, 2010, Vadell Johnson shot 28-year-old Scotty Tutwiler and two others outside the Fermier’s Sports Bar and Grill. Tutwiler later died at a hospital in Memphis while the others recovered. Johnson was sentenced to life for one count of murder, ten years for aggravated assault on Damien Story, and one year for possession

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