In the early morning hours of January 25, 2017, the quiet of a Courtland, Mississippi, neighborhood was shattered by a fatal act of domestic violence. Alfred Nicholson, a male resident of the town, was shot and killed in his home on Greenbriar road. The Panola County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene, where they found that Nicholson had sustained a fatal wound to the chest from a 16-gauge shotgun.
Investigators quickly identified a suspect in the shooting: Alfred Nicholson's own
17-year-old son, Alderious Nicholson. Authorities took the teenager into custody and charged him with the murder of his father. The case, which was one of nine homicides in Panola County that year, was slated to be tried in adult court, and Alderious Nicholson was held on a $250,000 bond.
Following his arrest, Alderious Nicholson's case, numbered CR2017-55-GCP2, proceeded through the Panola County Circuit Court. While specific details of the trial and conviction are not readily available in public online sources, subsequent records indicate his incarceration with the Mississippi Department of Corrections. More recent jail records from October 2023 also show that Alderious Nicholson has faced additional charges for contempt of court and probation violation, stemming from this case.
