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Marion County Sheriff’s
deputies responded to a call
received early Saturday
morning to 2269 Highway 13
South after they were told
someone was shot.
When deputy sheriffs
arrived, they found out Vandell
Willison, 21, of that address,
was taken by a private vehicle to
Marion General Hospital.
“We found out the shooting
actually took place at the
intersection of Old Highway 13
South and Game Reserve
Road,” said Marion County
Sheriff Berkley Hall.
Willison was struck one time
in the left shoulder and later
transferred to Forrest General
Hospital.
“Last we heard he was
stable,” Hall said. “He was shot
in the road, drove back to his
house, and was found lying on
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Hall said the best they can
determine right now, Willison
had a confrontation with another
black male.
“We don’t know what
brought it to that point, but we
are still trying to find what
happened.”
Hall said Willison is not
offering any information to help
the investigation, but MCSO is
looking for a suspect in
connection with the shooting.
Hall said the shooting could be
over relationship with female
“We recovered two 9 mm
shells at the scene that showed
there was gunfire,” Hall said.
“We also recovered glass from
the driver’s side window of
Willison’s car.”
A weapon, possibly a 9 mm
caliber handgun, has not been
recovered.
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Office continued its ongoing
drug sweep, as Tabarrus J.
Medious, 22, of 519 Walker
Street, was arrested for the sale
of a controlled substance within
1,500 feet of a church.
Medious was actually selling
soap to undercover agent with
the Pearl River Basin Drug Task
Force, as he cut the soap to
represent crack-cocaine.
“He represented it as drugs,
we bought it as drugs, and he is
being charge as if he was selling
drugs,” said Marion County
Sheriff Berkley Hall.
Louisiana man injured
while fleeing from PRBNTF
Jarod Harris, 18, of 9304
Sidney Drive of Merrers, La.,
was caught at a traffic stop
initiated by the Pearl River
Basin Narcotics Task Force
early Saturday morning on
Turnage Chapel Road. Harris
fled the scene and officers
chased him a short distance
down the road. He left the car
and started to jump fences, but
didn’t clear the last fence and
THURSDAY
January 29, 2009
Shooter running from Sheriff’s Office
By Don Hill
Editor
Daniel Winters, shown here in a Jan. 13 photo, was
re-arrested by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.
photo by Don Hill
By Don Hill
Editor
Reginald Hierrezuela,
known to most people around
Columbia as “Rocking
Chair,” was shot Friday night
at the Big K “Kangaroo”
Store on Highway 98.
Arrested and charged with
aggravated assault is James
McGowan, 23, of 71
Manning Crossing Road in
Kokomo.
“Based on the information
we have so far, it appeared
that the drug deal went bad,”
said Columbia Police
Department detective Chris
Brumfield. “Rocking Chair
went into the bathroom, shut
the door and was holding the
door to keep McGowan from
By Don Hill
Editor
Just before he was to take
his case to trial, a Tylertown
man pled guilty to
manslaughter before Judge
Prentiss Harrell on Friday in
Marion County.
Roderick Foriest, 33, pled
guilty to manslaughter for the
April 25, 2006 death of
Kelvin Magee, age 34. Magee
was found shot twice in his
car in Southwest Marion
County near the Walthall
County line at the intersection
of Knoxo Columbia Road
and Turnage Chapel Road.
A couple of weeks later,
Foriest was picked up in
was caught.
Harris, who suffered from
cuts while trying to negotiate
barbed wire, was taken to
Marion General Hospital,
treated and later released into the
custody of the sheriff’s
department. He was charged
with felony possession of a
controlled substance and
resisting arrest.
Winters returns to jail
Daniel Winters was arrested
Tuesday, Jan. 13 for selling
controlled substances to
undercover narcotics officers.
Thursday, Jan. 22, he was back
in jail.
“He bonded out, then started
calling our confidential
informant and threatened his
life,” said Columbia Police
Department’s Chris Brumfield.
“He is a state witness, and you
can’t do that.”
Winters was charged with
intimidating a state witness and
obstruction of justice by the
Mississippi Bureau of
Narcotics.
‘Rocking Chair’ shot
over alleged drug deal
getting to him. McGowan
shot through the door and hit
(Hierrezuela) in the
abdomen.”
Brumfield said the shooter
used a .38 caliber pistol, and
it was a “through and
through” shot, as the bullet
went in and out of
Hierruzuela, who was sent to
Forrest General where he
underwent emergency
surgery. The last report CPD
received said Rocking Chair
was in stable condition.
Brumfield said
Hierruzuela does not have a
past history of dealing drugs.
“According to witnesses,
the drugs were fake, they
were not real,” Brumfield
said. “It was supposed to
have been a piece of rock
crack.”.
Foriest pleads guilty
to manslaughter
Ridgeland when he was
arrested on other charges.
Foriest waived his right to
have a pre-sentence
investigation conducted and
was sentenced immediately
following his guilty plea,
according to Fifteenth Circuit
Court District Attorney Hal
Kittrell.
Harrell sentenced Foriest
as a habitual offender to a
mandatory 20-year term in
the custody of the Mississippi
Department of Corrections.
Because Foriest is a habitual
offender, which means he has
at least two prior felony
convictions, he will serve the
sentence day for day without
the possibility of parole or
any type of early release.