State Rep. Jessica Upshaw dead of apparent suicide
Simpson County Coroner Terry Tutor said state Rep. Jessica Upshaw has died.
Tutor said the Diamondhead Republican died Sunday.
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain says the crime scene unit is at a home in Mendenhall, investigating her death.
Simpson County Sheriff Kenneth Lewis told WLOX that Upshaw appeared to have shot herself in the head in an apparent suicide.
“It appeared she had a gunshot wound to her head; it appeared to be self-inflicted,” he said. […]