Greenwood, MS –Terry Williams Jr. pled guilty today in front of Leflore County Circuit Court Judge Carol White-Richard for his involvement in the shooting death of Greenwood teen Johnny Cage. On June 9, 2022, Williams, Darius Sims, and James Cason planned to rob the Cage home in Snowden Jones. The next morning, Sims, the stepbrother of the fifteen-year-old victim Johnny …

Indianola, MS—Savardson Durnham, 25, of Indianola pled guilty to Manslaughter on Tuesday, per District Attorney Dewayne Richardson. On September 22, 2020 officers of the Moorhead Police Department responded to the intersection of Pecan Circle and Birch Street in Moorhead, Mississippi where the victim Larry Logan had been physically assaulted. Witnesses identified Savardus Durnham, Logan’s neighbor, as being the one who …

Greenwood, MS – On Wednesday, October 15, 2025, James Leahman, a/k/a “Red”, was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of Donald Spells, District Attorney Dewayne Richardson announced today.  Leahman was found guilty on August 8, 2025, by a jury in Leflore County Circuit Court convicting him of both First-Degree Murder and Possession of a Firearm by a …

Greenwood, MS – Jakeldris Hunt of Sidon, was sentenced on October 13, 2025, in connection with the murder of John Arias Brown, District Attorney W. Dewayne Richardson announced today. On the night of December 30, 2021, John Arias Brown was gunned down outside Country Manor Apartments in Sidon, MS.  Investigators with the Leflore County Sheriff’s Department arrived and discovered multiple …