A Noxubee County grand jury indicted Jonathan Shumaker, his girlfriend, Elizabeth Layne Reed, and Justin Williams and his brother, Joshua, on capital murder charges. “That’s how we got Vance to corroborate that Reed was telling the truth about the unlawful sex,” Colom said. Getting enough people to serve as jurors has long been a problem in Noxubee County, which has a population of less than 10,000, much less finding impartial jurors, he said. Afterward, he contacted federal authorities again and told them reporters had reached out to him, asking questions. Noxubee County residents already have a lot of skepticism toward law enforcement, he said, “so when you actually do have corruption, it has to be aggressively handled.

Source: New York Times May 09, 2024 18:49 UTC