By The Related Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 19-year-old has been arrested and charged with killing a fellow school scholar in Mississippi on Sunday.
Joshua Brown of Columbia, Mississippi, was arrested Wednesday within the loss of life of 21-year-old Jaylen Burns. Brown was charged with homicide and unlawful possession of a firearm on college property, arrest affidavits present.
The capturing was reported late Sunday at an residence complicated on the campus in Mississippi’s capital metropolis. Jackson State College stated Burns was an industrial expertise main from Chicago.
Brown is a scholar at Jones School in Ellisville, about 85 miles (136 kilometers) away from Jackson. He was initially arrested by Jones School Campus police and was then turned over to authorities in Jackson, in line with a information launch.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones instructed WLBT-TV that Brown is being held on the Raymond Detention Heart in Hinds County.
Reached by cellphone Thursday, the Hinds County Public Defender’s Workplace stated an legal professional had not been assigned to signify Brown. It was not clear whether or not he had obtained a personal legal professional. A name to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Workplace in search of details about his illustration was not instantly returned.
In an announcement after the capturing, Jackson State College’s performing president, Elayne H. Anthony, referred to as Burns an “formidable and vivid younger man, who believed in being of service.”
