{"id":399534,"date":"2026-01-10T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399534\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T16:33:08","slug":"suspect-in-custody-after-6-killed-in-us-state-of-mississippi-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399534\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after 6 killed in US state of Mississippi, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A person was in custody on Saturday after six people were killed in a series of related shootings in eastern Mississippi, US authorities said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said in a Facebook post that \u201cmultiple innocent lives\u201d were lost \u201cdue to violence\u201d in the town of West Point, near the Alabama border. The sheriff told WTVA that six people were killed in three locations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A suspect was in custody and there was no threat to the community, the sheriff wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI ask that you lift our victims and their families in your prayers. Law Enforcement is busy investigating and will release an update as soon as possible,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The sheriff\u2019s office did not provide further details early on Saturday, but planned a morning news conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was in custody on Saturday after six people were killed in a series of related shootings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5183,23,192906,192904,10414,4381,192905,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,86129,192903],"class_list":["post-399534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alabama","tag-america","tag-clay-county-sheriff-eddie-scott","tag-eastern-mississippi","tag-facebook","tag-law-enforcement","tag-multiple-innocent-lives","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west-point","tag-wtva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}