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A Crawford man who was staying at a facility that provides housing for individuals transitioning out of the state prison system or operating under the supervision of the State Department of Corrections has been charged with murder.

According to WLBT, Travis Weatherspoon allegedly beat Jerry Michael Lee of Jackson with a chair and didn't stop when Lee lost consciousness.

Simpson County deputies used a taser to subdue Weatherspoon at New Way Transitional Facility in McGee and brought him into custody.

Lee was eventually airlifted to UMMC in Jackson but died from his injuries.

them taken off the air? That got their license lost.

That was, uh, WLBT in Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi.

They lost their license for defending segregation on the air.

My, oh my, how times have changed.

A lot of people got hit and killed by vehicles this weekend.

I'm trying to find the story on WLBT here.

There was several national stories about people getting hit with vehicles this weekend, too.

Yeah, I forgot to put the link in my show.

I saved the note to talk about it and then put the link in it.

It's on WLBT here somewhere.

Let's see.

My apologies, y'all.

And so I think the interesting part is during that, I always think of that as my glory days at the Clarion Ledger.

And, you know, the thing is, WLBT, it just, it's a different kind of, TV is a different kind of journalism.

So it's, if you are, you know, you got to have something for the four o'clock, the five o'clock, the six o'clock, the 10 o'clock news.

So if I get to work at two and and then i've got to go call this person that person go shoot video of them go shoot b-roll do all the things and i can't get somebody to call me back well that means that i've got a one-sided story and that's okay go ahead and tell you know so it was like a just i felt like i wasn't getting to tell full stories i was just telling half of a story a lot of the time or you've got 90 seconds to tell a story that in in print journalism would take me 30 column inches And I'm still not done, you know.

I mean, this dude went hard on these folks.

Now, I wanna pull, I wanna queue up WLBT's video, so y'all bear with me just one second here.

But the headline reads, "Man accused of assaulting three JPD detectives was on probation for felony fleeing, records show." Well, I mean, surely it wasn't in Jackson, 'cause they don't chase there.

Must've been capital police.

So, I mean, I, like I said, I just...

Lack of respect for, not law enforcement, but for JPD.

Let's, uh, let's go to WLBT and listen to Maggie and Howard, uh, explain what happened there at JPD headquarters.

And I know there's a, the, the, uh, the chief doctor PhD makes a appearance in this too.

There's more.

Police allege that Ernest Lloyd Jr., 25 years of age, one of the men charged with murder in Miss Fortune's death, used a black cable cord to hang her from the tree, WLBT local reports.

The detective declined to release any additional details because the grand jury has not yet received all of the evidence.

The young mother's hanging in August sparked national attention because of the manner in which people thought Miss Fortune died, the manner that was allegedly staged.

25-year-old Lloyd was arrested.

The third person turned himself in on Friday and was charged with murder.

WLBT reports that Eric Clark, 45, will appear in court on Monday, September 28th, yesterday.

I mean, excuse me, yesterday.