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A man is in custody in Mississippi after he shot & killed 2 children & held a third child at gunpoint, police say.
At approximately 2 a.m. Monday morning, deputies with the Coahoma County Sheriff's Office say they received a call about a child who had been shot at an apartment in Jonestown, Mississippi. Deputies banded together to negotiate with a man who was then holding a child at gunpoint.
"Deputies were able to talk the subject into dropping his weapon and get the child to safety," the police report said. Police then arrested the suspect, later identified as 25-year-old Marquez Griffin.
As they began to inspect the residence where the incident occurred, investigators found 2 young children — a 1-year-old girl named Averi Jones & an unnamed 9-year-old boy — who had recently been shot. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, but Averi was raced to a nearby hospital, where she later died.
Averi's grandmother, Melrose Haile, shared her grief with FOX13: "That was my grandbaby. She was only a year & a half, and now she’s gone. It’s nothing in this world that can take this pain away. Nothing."
The detail that Haile then shared is devastating. Her daughter told Haile that Averi "was asleep" when Griffin supposedly "put a pillow over her head & shot her in her head."
Haile added that she believed Griffin had been a friend of her daughter. "She told me they were friends," she said. "And how could a friend do this to you?"
Police are just as perplexed as anyone about a possible motive for the horrendous crime. Griffin — a Mississippi native who until recently had been living in Arlington, Texas — has been charged with 2 counts of murder & 2 counts of aggravated assault.
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Source: The Blaze
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