Canton police continue search for man connected to triple homicide Gabriela Szymanowska, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Canton police are still searching for a man in connection to the deaths of a pregnant woman and her brother during a home invasion.
Chief Otha Brown said his department is now working with the Madison County Sheriff s Office on the investigation.
Brown said Maudilia Martina Ramirez Garcia, 19, was found dead inside the house lying on a bed. The woman, who was eight months pregnant, had been shot in the face. Her brother, Faustino Ramirez Garcia, 20, was found on the floor in the house. Brown said Garcia had been shot in the back of the head.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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5:05 pm UTC Dec. 10, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.
Cliseida Rodriguez, volunteer community health worker/promotora
Our people needed to know how to defend themselves. . That’s why I got involved. So we could support each other and find strength with each other through this.
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On a balmy mid-October afternoon, she stood underneath a carport surrounded by 99 boxes of frozen chicken, plums, apples and packaged foods.
Thirty-three boxes were headed to families in Carthage, 33 to Forest and 33 would be distributed right there in Morton, according to the meticulous list her friend and colleague Ernestina Perez, 52, kept track of in a spiral-bound notebook.
Under every town s name is a list of families awaiting food and supplies.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
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11:07 am UTC Dec. 14, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.