6 people killed in Mississippi rampage, including 7-year-old girl. Suspect charged with murder

WEST POINT, Miss. (AP) — A 24-year-old Mississippi antheral killed six radical — his father, brother, uncle, 7-year-old cousin, a religion pastor and the pastor’s member — astatine 3 locations during a Friday nighttime rampage successful a agrarian area, authorities said.

Daricka M. Moore was arrested astatine a constabulary roadblock successful Cedarbluff conscionable earlier midnight aft dozens of local, authorities and national officers flooded the northeast Mississippi area.

Moore was being held without bail Saturday astatine the Clay County jailhouse successful West Point connected execution charges and up of an expected archetypal quality Monday earlier a judge.

Clay County District Attorney Scott Colom, who said helium expects to prosecute the decease penalty, told The Associated Press that Moore would apt beryllium appointed a nationalist defender astatine that time.

If charges are upgraded to superior execution earlier then, Moore volition beryllium ineligible for bail nether authorities law.

Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said astatine a Saturday quality league that grounds and witnesses bespeak that Moore was the lone shooter and nary different injuries person been reported.

Investigators were continuing to interrogation Moore but bash not presently cognize what whitethorn person motivated him, helium added.

“A concern similar this, you’ve got a household subordinate attacking their ain family,” Scott said. “Whatever the crushed is, we’re hoping that we’ll find out.”

The shootings unfolded successful an country of fields, woods and mostly humble homes astir 125 miles (200 kilometers) northeast of Jackson.

Investigators judge Moore archetypal killed his father, 67-year-old Glenn Moore, his brother, 33-year-old Quinton Moore and his uncle, 55-year-old Willie Ed Guines, astatine the family's mobile location connected a ungraded roadworthy successful occidental Clay County.

The sheriff said Moore past stole his brother's motortruck and drove a fewer miles to a cousin's house, wherever helium forced his mode successful and attempted to perpetrate intersexual battery. Scott said Moore than enactment a weapon to the caput of a 7-year-old girl, whom helium declined to identify, and fatally changeable her.

“I don’t cognize what benignant of motive you could person to termination a 7-year-old,” helium said.

Scott said that according to witnesses, Moore past placed a weapon against a younger child's head, but she was not shot. It was not wide whether helium did not propulsion the trigger oregon the weapon misfired.

“That's however convulsive it was,” Scott said.

The parent and a 3rd kid were besides present, the sheriff said.

Moore past allegedly drove to a tiny achromatic framework church, the Apostolic Church of The Lord Jesus. There, Scott said, helium broke into a residence, killed the pastor and his member and stole 1 of their vehicles.

Scott said the past 2 victims, the Rev. Barry Bradley and Samuel Bradley, lived astir of the clip successful adjacent Columbus but spent weekends connected religion grounds. Some Moore household members be the church, Scott said.

Moore was caught astatine a roadblock astatine 11:24 p.m. adjacent wherever the 2nd shooting occurred, Scott said, four-and-a-half hours aft the archetypal telephone came in. Colom said Moore had a firearm and a handgun. Scott said officers are investigating wherever Moore obtained the guns.

The authorities aesculapian examiner is performing autopsies connected the victims.

Scott said Moore's surviving relatives are overwhelmed with grief.

“It was truly hard to person conversations different than prayers with everybody retired there,” helium said, adding, “this has truly shaken our community.”

Colom, a Democrat who is seeking his party's information this twelvemonth to tally against Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith, said helium is assured that his bureau has the resources to prosecute Moore and pursuing the decease punishment is the close happening to do.

“Six people, 1 night, respective antithetic scenes, it’s astir arsenic atrocious arsenic it gets,” Colom said.

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