GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) - The City Council has approved a plan to provide overtime pay to facilitate more police patrols in the city after two separate killings in Greenville this past week.
The Delta Democrat-Times reports (https://bit.ly/1Jp7rJn ) Greenville Mayor John Cox called an emergency session Thursday with the City Council so the overtime pay requested by Police Chief Freddie Cannon could be approved.
Eighteen-year-old Michael Smith Jr. and 25-year-old Kenneth Howard were both killed by multiple gunshot wounds Wednesday. The shootings, which police say were unrelated, occurred within two hours of each other.
Police arrested 22-year-old Marquel Magnum in connection with the Howard shooting and continue to search for 22-year-old Kadarius Jackson in Smith’s death.
The killings were Greenville’s fifth and sixth homicides of 2015, one shy of last year’s total.
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Information from: Delta Democrat-Times, https://www.ddtonline.com
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