The Columbus Police Department today announced the arrest of Myron Sewell for capital murder in the Sept. 22, 2011 shooting of William Lavelle Vaughan. He will be arraigned this afternoon.
Vaughan was shot in the yard of his father’s house on 27th Street North and died on the way to the hospital.
During a five-day period in September 2011, three people were shot and killed. Arrests have not been made in the other two homicides.
Chief Selvain McQueen also announced his department is searching for Curtis Hinton in relation to the 1997 murder of 70-year-old George Wilbanks. Wilbanks was stabbed and strangled in his north Columbus home.
Wilbanks’ murder was the second in a string of five which occurred between 1996 and 1998. All were senior citizens, all died in a similar fashion and all lived in north Columbus, within a three-mile radius of one another.
The homicides received national attention, drawing a film crew from CBS News’ “48 Hours” to Columbus to spotlight the cases, but many residents said they spent more time comparing the city to “The Andy Griffith Show’s” fictional Mayberry — rife with corn-pone locals.
In February police arrested Earnest Terell Talley and charged him with the murder of Wilbanks. Talley was already in the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center on a burglary charge from Jan. 14.
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