On the morning of October 4, 1995, Simpson County Sheriff Lloyd Silas Jones, a 66-year-old male, was shot and killed in the front yard of his own home on Mary Grove Road near Magee, Mississippi. A dedicated lawman with a 39-year career, he had served as sheriff for 19 years, following a 20-year tenure with the Mississippi Highway Patrol. The events of that tragic morning began to unfold before 7:00 a.m. when a man shot and wounded a woman, Mary Walker Langston, who lived near the sheriff's resid
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