Distant jurors to hear Mississippi police killing trial
By The Associated Press May 10, 2021
BROOKHAVEN Jurors will be chosen from northern Mississippi later this year and taken to the southern part of the state for the death penalty trial of a man charged with killing two police officers in 2018.
Circuit Judge Richard McKenzie ruled Thursday that jury selection will begin Nov. 8 in Lafayette County for the trial of Marquis Flowers, the Daily Leader reported.
Jurors will be taken about 345 miles south for the trial in Pike County. The killings occurred in Lincoln County, which is just north of Pike.
Flowers, now 28, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Brookhaven Police Department Cpl. Zach Moak, 31, and patrol officer James White, 35. They were shot to death Sept. 29, 2018, while responding to a call about shots being fired at a home.
Distant jurors to hear Mississippi police killing trial
May 7, 2021
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Capital murder defendant Marquis A. Flowers is escorted into the Lincoln County/Brookhaven Governmental Complex by Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing, left, and other law enforcement officers on Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Brookhaven, Miss. Jurors will be chosen from northern Mississippi later this year and taken to the southern part of the state for the death penalty trial of Flowers who is charged with killing two police officers in 2018. (Brett Campbell/The Daily Leader via AP)Brett Campbell/AP
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) Jurors will be chosen from northern Mississippi later this year and taken to the southern part of the state for the death penalty trial of a man charged with killing two police officers in 2018.
Post office, highway renamed for officers killed on duty
May 3, 2021
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BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) A government building and a section of highway in a Mississippi city were officially renamed during a ceremony Monday to honor law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty.
A Brookhaven post office was renamed to the Deputy Donald William Durr, Corporal Zach Moak and Patrolman James White Memorial Post Office Building and a section of Hwy. 51 in front of the city s police department headquarters was renamed to the Corporal Zach Moak and Officer James White Memorial Highway.
A plaque with the post office’s new name was set to be added to the building, and signs were already placed at both ends of the highway, The Daily Leader reported.
Brookhaven post office renamed in honor of three fallen officers Fallen officers (Source: WLBT) By WLBT Digital | December 4, 2020 at 10:29 AM CST - Updated January 2 at 1:59 PM
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (WLBT) - A Brookhaven post office will be named in honor of three local law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
President Donald Trump signed a law on Dec. 21 to rename the facility as the “Deputy Donald William Durr, Corporal Zach Moak and Patrolman James White Memorial Post Office Building,” according to the Associated Press. The post office is located at 201 West Cherokee Street.
The bill was originally introduced in April 2019 by U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith and Congressman Michael Guest and cosponsored by Senator Roger Wicker.