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Shelby County Sheriff’s Office has description of man involved in recent shootings

Release Date: March 19, 2003

Shelby County Sheriff’s Detectives say they now have a good description of a man believed to be involved in two recent shooting events, one in East Shelby County, the other in Southaven, Mississippi.

Investigators say they are looking for a man in his early twenties, with a dark complexion, with a two-to-three inch afro hair style. Investigators say he is wanted for attempting to shoot a woman on March 8 outside the International House of Pancakes restaurant on Goodman Road at Interstate 55 in Southaven. Then, on the next day, the same man is believed to be responsible for shooting 22-year-old Jennifer Langston as she was visiting her parents’ home in East Shelby County.

Ms. Langston, who has now been released from the hospital, says the man demanded her car. When she refused, he shot her in the chest. The man left the scene in a dark colored car. Anyone with information about either of these cases is asked to call Detective Sgt. Ray Sides at the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, the Southaven Police Department, or Crime-Stoppers at 528-CASH.

The suspected identified in two shooting Incidents, one in Southaven, Mississippi on March 8, 2003 the other in East Shelby County on March 9, 2003.

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