Two arrested after man dead following graduation party fight
June 10, 2021
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VARDAMAN, Miss. (AP) A father and son have been arrested in north Mississippi after a 25-year-old man was found dead in a pond after a fight at a graduation party.
Heriberto Mata died Sunday in Vardaman, according to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department.
“Tragedy. We use that word a lot,” Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan told WCBI-TV. “Something that starts out so innocently.
Pollan told the television station that Mata, a Calhoun County resident, was at a girl’s high school graduation celebration on Saturday that continued into Sunday morning. Around 5 a.m. on Sunday, Mata approached the DJ about playing longer.
Storms spawn twisters in Mississippi, kill 2 in Georgia
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Vickie Savell looks at the remains of her new mobile home early Monday, May 3, 2021, in Yazoo County, Miss. Multiple tornadoes were reported across Mississippi on Sunday, causing some damage but no immediate word of injuries. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
YAZOO CITY, Miss. – Severe storms spawning multiple tornadoes moved across the South on Monday, damaging homes and uprooting trees from Mississippi to West Virginia. A tornado spotted in Atlanta forced thousands to seek shelter, and one man was killed when a falling tree brought power lines onto his vehicle.
The motorist was pronounced dead after fire crews cut him from the vehicle in Douglasville, Georgia, west of Atlanta, Douglas County spokesman Rick Martin told reporters. And in middle Georgia, 55-year-old Carla Harris was killed after a tree fell onto her Bonaire home, Houston County emergency officials said.
YAZOO CITY, Miss. - Much of the South is again at risk of severe weather Tuesday, forecasters say, after tornadoes struck parts of the region Sunday night and Monday, causing heavy damage in some parts of Mississippi.