Suspect arrested in deadly Miss. highway shootings

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-USA TODAY

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Police have arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that prompted warnings a fake officer might be pulling over victims.

Authorities said early Friday that the fears of an impostor turned out to be unfounded. Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain told The Associated Press that the suspect, James D. Willie, 28, had not been posing as a police officer in the shootings.

Willie was being held on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and rape and would be formally charged with two counts of capital murder, Strain said.

Willie was being held at the Tunica County jail in north Mississippi.



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Tunica County Sheriff, AP

James Willie, 28, is charged with two counts of capital murder in two fatal Mississippi highway shootings.

[Bacchus4.0]

1. found him with the gun used in the killings

and not soon enough. since he was on a crime binge.

[mactime]

2. Good

Sounds like the cops did a good job.