News Briefs From Across The State
By Monica Land
Craig Spivey killed, Eric Lindsey injured
Two suspects face charges in a shooting that left one person dead and another injured on Tuesday.
Hinds County deputies tell WLBT that 27-year-old Lashaun Taylor and 17-year-old Cadarro Taylor surrendered on Wednesday and were turned over to Jackson police.
Jackson police have identified the dead man as 34-year-old Craig Spivey. The second victim, Eric Lindsey, was hospitalized, Jackson police spokeswoman Colendula Green says.
The shootings took place in the Georgetown neighborhood. County Supervisor Kenneth Stokes says witnesses told him the shooting started when Spivey and Lindsey allegedly jumped out of a truck and started firing rounds at a house on Erie Street.
Officers responded to the shooting around 11:45 a.m. and found two people suffering from gunshot wounds, Green says.
5-year-old put on wrong daycare van
A 5-year-old boy missing on his first day of school has been found safely.
Officials of the Jackson Public Schools system said the child was put on the wrong daycare van and was taken to the wrong daycare center.
The child was identified as a kindergartner from Wilkins Elementary School.
School officials discovered the child had been put on the wrong van Tuesday when workers from his daycare center arrived to pick him up after school.
Stennis workshop focuses on technology
The Marine Technology Society plans an Oceans In Action Workshop on Aug. 22 at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County.
The session will focus on marine technology used by federal and state agencies, regional associations, universities and industry on the Gulf Coast to support a wide variety of issues.
Mission updates will be presented by federal agencies, including the Naval Research Laboratory, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Applied Sciences Directorate, NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.