Local News
Apparent residential burglary results in death of alleged burglar
POPLARVILLE — A 19 year-old man died as the result of a gunshot wound to the chest while he and two other people allegedly were involved in a residential burglary.
The Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department received the call about the incident at about 4:50 Thursday morning. The call came from Marvin Quinn, who lives on Denero Drive near Poplarville. Quinn told dispatch that three people broke into his house and he shot one of them, Chief Deputy Shane Tucker said.
Deputies and investigators would later learn that the three suspects fled the scene after one of them was shot. Minutes after receiving the call from Quinn, dispatch received another call from the Pearl River County hospital in Poplarville that a shooting victim had arrived at the facility.
Deputies responded to Quinn’s home and took him into custody for further investigation and went to the hospital to check on the shooting victim. At the hospital deputies learned that the shooting victim, identified as 19 year-old Ashton J. Rester, was dead.
Pearl River County Coroner Derek Turnage said Rester died as a result of a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Tucker said the man who brought Rester to the hospital, 19 year-old Raymond Gilleo of 195 Ben Sones Rd., Poplarville, was questioned and later taken into custody. Interviews with Gilleo showed that he, Rester, and a third man, Gene McBeth, 61, of 206 Martin Luther King Blvd., Poplarville, went to Quinn’s home in an attempt to retrieve some personal possessions McBeth left at the home during a previous three-day stay.
However, McBeth had been previously instructed by Sheriff’s Department personnel not to return to Quinn’s home due to a report filed by Quinn.
Tucker said in spite of that instruction not to return to Quinn’s home, the three men allegedly broke in early that morning, making entry through the rear door. Quinn awoke to the noise of the men breaking in. When the men could not make entry to the Quinn’s bedroom Rester went to the bedroom window and made entry there.
Quinn repeatedly asked Rester to leave his home but Rester would not, so Quinn fired a single round, hitting Rester in the chest, Tucker said.
The three men then fled the scene with Gilleo taking Rester to the hospital in Poplarville.
Gilleo was taken into custody at the hospital that morning but it would not be until Thursday night at about 9:30 when Deputy Brandon Carr went by McBeth’s home address that McBeth was arrested, Tucker said. Charges were not pressed against Quinn.
“The homeowner was released because through the investigation it appeared he had no other option to protect himself,” Tucker said.
The two surviving suspects had their initial appearance Friday and bond was set at $500,000 a piece for the charge of capital murder.
Tucker said state statute states if a death occurs during the commission of a crime, then the party or parties responsible for the crime are responsible for the death, whether death was the intent or not. Tucker compared it to a drunk driver killing or hurting another person.
- Local News
-
-
Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding
Hurricane Earl packed winds near 125 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard all the way to Canada on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.
-
Earl threatens East Coast with weekend pounding
Hurricane Earl packed winds near 140 mph as it blew toward North Carolina on Thursday, putting the Eastern Seaboard up to Maine on alert for a Labor Day weekend pounding by waves, gales and rain.
A hurricane warning for the tip of Massachusetts, including Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard, joined earlier warnings and watches for hurricanes or tropical storms that stretch from North Carolina up to near the Canadian border. -
Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast
Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Atlantic Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm’s predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm’s way.
-
Man found guilty of DUI, kidnapping
Jerry Van Wagner of Bay St. Louis, was found guilty of aggravated DUI and kidnapping in Pearl River County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
During court proceedings this week the District Attorney’s office portrayed the events leading up to 27 year-old Crystal Brasher’s death as a kidnapping that ended with an accident caused by Jerry Van Wagner driving while intoxicated. -
Virtual on-line classes so popular they’re filled up
A state education official who helps co-ordinate a virtual on-line school says the program is so popular and in so much demand that all slots are now filled and no more applications are being accepted for now.
-
Patrol officers beat the streets
“Cadets” at Picayune Police Department’s Community Police Academy got to see an officer get tased and learned about the Department’s Patrol Division.
-
Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast
Powerful Hurricane Earl spun toward the East Coast on Wednesday, driving tourists from North Carolina’s vacation islands and threatening to bring damaging winds and waves to the Atlantic seaboard through Labor Day weekend.
-
Police: Man holds hostages in Discovery building
A man upset with the Discovery Channel’s environmental programming took several people hostage at gunpoint at the company’s headquarters Wednesday while wearing canisters strapped to his body, officials said.
-
Miranda Lambert tops CMA Awards with 9 nominations
Miranda Lambert made history Wednesday morning when she was nominated for nine CMA Awards, the most for a female country music artist.
-
Island evacuations start as Earl nears East Coast
Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend.
Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, and federal authorities have warned people all along the Eastern seaboard to be prepared to evacuate. - More Local News Headlines
-
