By Associated Press - Monday, January 18, 2016

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) - An elderly Greenwood man has been arrested on a murder charge in the shooting death of his son.

The Greenwood Commonwealth reports (https://bit.ly/1n6UQBK ) that witnesses told police that 43-year-old Freddy Lee Clay shot and killed himself on Saturday.

But Greenwood Police Chief Ray Moore told the newspaper that evidence at the scene contradicted those accounts.



Clay’s father, 70-year-old James Clay Jr., was arrested on a first-degree murder charge and ordered held without bail. He was being held at the Leflore County Jail.

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Information from: The Greenwood Commonwealth, https://www.gwcommonwealth.com

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