CRIME & SAFETY

TCHULA, Miss. (WLBT) - The town of Tchula, Mississippi is still feeling the impacts of a mass shooting Friday night that left one person dead and six others injured. It happened at a venue located on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive near Pine Street. According to Tchula Police Chief...

YAZOO COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) - Three people, including a four-year-old child, are dead after three different wrecks over the past week. According to Yazoo County Coroner Ricky Shivers, the first wreck and death occurred on Interstate 55 north of Vaughan last Wednesday morning around 4:30 p.m. Shawanda Jenkins, 45, of...

Police are looking for two suspects who they believe are responsible for a weekend mass shooting at a Mississippi pool hall that killed one man and injured six other people. Officials with the Tchula Police Department report that the two suspects fired more than 50 rounds with an AK-47 and AR-15 during the shooting which happened after 11 p.m. on Friday, September 15, at Damix Pool Hall on Highway 49 South.

On Saturday, September 16, 2023, at approximately 3:55 p.m., the Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to a fatal crash on Highway 49E in Holmes County. A 2019 Ford Mustang driven by 53-year-old Michael Montesi of Tchula, MS, traveled south on Highway 49E when the vehicle left the roadway. Michael Montesi received fatal injuries from the crash and was pronounced dead on the scene.

Www.wjtv.com – Kristopher White – 2023-09-18 15:32:20. SUMMARY: A Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper was involved in a fiery crash in Wilkinson County. The crash occurred on September 15 when the trooper was responding to a call for service. The patrol vehicle left the road, collided with a culvert, and caught fire. A witness helped the trooper out of the overturned vehicle. The trooper sustained minor injuries and was taken to the hospital for treatment. The crash is currently under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

Fred Chambliss began working as Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Yazoo City in April 2012. Starting out there at the age of 29, he was an upbeat, people person and he believed that he would be able to bring hope and a sense of humanity to those he’d be working with every day, both the staff and his fellow officers in the prison workforce and to the male detainees that he was responsible for overseeing.