Kristian Williams, 19-year-old Mississippi State University kinesiology major, died shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday after suffering gunshot wounds at a home on Fredrica Avenue in Jackson, Miss., according to a report on WAPT news in Jackson. Her mother, Davietta Horton, was also shot and underwent surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Police have arrested David Horton, Williams’s stepfather, and charged him with one count of murder and one count of aggravated assault.
Sid Salter, MSU chief communications officer, said in an email he cannot comment on the circumstances of the student’s death because it occurred so far from MSU, but all student deaths affect the MSU family.
“Any time we lose a student to tragedy like this, the entire MSU community is diminished,” Salter said.
Student fatally shot in Jackson
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