{"id":384916,"date":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384916\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:00:08","slug":"police-arrest-38-year-old-man-in-long-beach-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/384916\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 38-year-old man in Long Beach murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department arrested a Vancleave man early Friday in connection with a murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Hallis Wayne Russ Jr., 38, was taken into custody around 1 a.m. near Pat Eubanks Road in George County. He is charged with one count of murder. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"38-year-old Hallis Wayne Russ Jr., of Vancleave\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AX55N7RMTNEN3ERDL2DCTOS7HQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>38-year-old Hallis Wayne Russ Jr., of Vancleave(Long Beach Police Department)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The arrest stems from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/07\/02\/update-long-beach-police-identify-murder-suspect-search-underway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/2026\/07\/02\/update-long-beach-police-identify-murder-suspect-search-underway\/\">shooting on Allen Road<\/a> early Thursday morning. Officials said Neville Conner, 38, was found dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"First responders on the scene of a shooting in Long Beach.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783083608_790_WFVR4R6ZENCZTHXX2HVVHSKFZU.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>First responders on the scene of a shooting in Long Beach.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, no information regarding a possible motive has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Russ was transported to the Harrison County Adult Detention Center and is being held on a $1 million bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information about this case is urged to contact the Long Beach Police Department at 228-865-1981 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 The Long Beach Police Department arrested a Vancleave man early Friday in connection&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[237,51138,10753,155360,155362,131,133,132,867,2488,155361,1331,155076,135],"class_list":["post-384916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-arrest","tag-bond","tag-charged","tag-hallis-wayne-russ-jr","tag-harrison-county-jail","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-police-department","tag-motive","tag-mugshot","tag-murder","tag-neville-conner","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}