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Oct 19, 2023 · CLARKSDALE, Miss. (WMC) - Shock overcame one Mid-South town after a Mississippi Appeals court overturned a conviction in a 2015 murder case. This case playing out in Clarksdale, Mississippi in Coahoma County. Eight years after Myrtle Messenger was shot and killed right at her front door, one of the men convicted of her murder is now a free man ...
Mar 19, 2015 · CLARKSDALE, MS (WMC) - On a night a when the city of Clarksdale is remembering one of its most beloved citizens, a man sits behind bars a person of interest in the murder of 65-year-old Myrtle Messenger. The Thursday night vigil for the cherished wife, mother and grandmother filled an entire street.
- Janice Broach
Dec 18, 2019 · Connell Gray Jr. was sentenced to life in the Mississippi Department of Corrections last week for the first degree murder of Myrtle Messenger, 66, on March 14, 2015. The three day trial saw the jury return Friday morning in Coahoma County Circuit Court and announce the verdict to Judge Al Smith.
Mar 26, 2019 · Tue,03/26/19-1:29PM, 5,301 Reads. To the Editor: We are very upset at the criminal justice system in Clarksdale. The case of the two men who are accused of killing our loved one, Myrtle Messenger, has not gone to trial and keeps getting continuances.
Dantrail Jackson was convicted of the murder of Myrtle Messenger by a jury in. Coahoma County. He was sentenced to serve life imprisonment in the custody of the. Mississippi Department of Corrections. On appeal, Jackson claims the trial court erred when. it allowed a surveillance video to be admitted showing him and others fighting at an.
Jun 14, 2022 · A stabbing last week in Clarksdale sent a man to the hospital in serious condition and he later died prompting police to arrest a woman for murder. Police were called to the 600 block of Oakhurst Street at 3:28 p.m. Friday June 3 and found a 31-year-old black male with a stab wound to the chest.
