A man has been indicted on a murder charge a year after a former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died.
FILE - House Education Committee member Ashley Henley, R-Southaven, asks a question about teacher pay raise legislation presented before the committee on Jan. 31, 2019, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Billy Lamar Brooks has been indicted on a murder charge a year after the former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died.
Henley and other relatives contended Yalobusha County authorities were doing too little to examine possible criminal charges in Jones’ death. Relatives erected a homemade sign at the site with photos of Jones under the phrase, “I was murdered.” A man who had lived near Jones, Billy Lamar Brooks, was indicted in February on a charge of maliciously setting fire to the home of Jones and Terry Henley. Court records show that on June 30, a grand jury filed a new indictment against Brooks to add a murder charge in the death of Ashley Henley.The Associated Press reached Brooks’ attorney, Bradley Peeples, by phone Saturday and he declined to comment on the case.
After Ashley Henley was killed, investigators said her body had been found on June 13, 2021. The indictment of Brooks accuses him of killing her on or about June 14, 2021.
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