Dispatch Staff Report November 19, 2009 11:42:00 AM
The Columbus Police Department has made two more arrests resulting from a Nov. 14 drive-by shooting.
According to information provided by CPD Public Information Officer Terrie Songer, Jameale Cortez Willis was arrested Wednesday, and Javarr Marquest Johnson was arrested Tuesday.
Willis, 17, of 720 19th St. N. in Columbus was arrested at 8:18 a.m. on a charge of drive-by shooting. Johnson, 18, of 504 20th St. N. in Columbus was arrested Tuesday at 11:16 p.m. Both arrests stem from the drive-by shooting that took place Nov. 14 at 1110 Seventh Ave.
This makes the third and fourth arrests made in this incident.
No bond or court date has been set for either Willis or Johnson.
Others who were previously arrested for the same crime are Quinton Cortez Hairston, 17, and Joseph Allen Rush, 18.
Other arrests
In other arrests, CPD arrested Ceasar Chris Sherrod Tuesday at 8:06 a.m.
Sherrod, 34 of 1514 22nd St. N., was charged with malicious mischief-felony. The arrest stems from an Oct. 16 incident in which Sherrod had gotten into a verbal altercation with a subject and damaged the car she was driving.
The community needs to know, beyond a shadow of doubt: who pulled the trigger? Without the benefit of parole, the maximum sentence is in order. Depending upon the circumstances of others being with him and other facts surrounding the matter, accomplices before and after deserve almost as much time.
People, the foolishness has gone on long enough. Emphasis must me placed on real crimes, istead of things mis-classified as such. If done, there will be fewer persons, among us, classified as criminals and fewer jails and prison-cells needed to house, feed and guard them.
The Governor proposes merging and probably eventually closing some colleges and universities within the state. What is keeping the people of the state from demanding that the legislature re-visit disfunctional laws, discard them and use the saving to upgrade institutions and increase salaries of persons devoted to educating the public. Is that much too sensible an idea for Mississippians to entertain? I think not. We deserve better, ya'll! We're better than our so-called leaders are making us appear, before the entire world!!
I just read the packet you mean to tell me that I was sitting there watching a Columbus Hign basketball game and all hell was breaking lose outside. There were only two security officers at the game. No athletic director or prinicpal. I wonder what would have happened if the fight had spilled over into the gym? Hey school board that high price superintendent is not worth that kind of money. Need to fire him and use his pay on more security officers,a drug dog, more cameras and medal detectors.
The school board needs to come out there and speak to the teachers they are the ones that are actually in the trenches everyday. I know that some parents are not doing their jobs, but how in the world are these kids able to stay in school? Myy nephew just told me that they caught a boy and girl in the bathroom? What is going on?
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