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Three suspects arrested, charged with capital murder BY HANNAH ROGERS Editor in Chief
Three suspects have been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the campus shooting that led to a Mississippi State University student’s death on Saturday. Trent Deundra Crump, 21, of Flowood was located and taken into custody Tuesday on a capital murder warrant in Gainseville, Fla., and was held at the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department. MSU Police Chief Georgia Lindley said
on Wednesday afternoon MSU Police Department detectives had been dispatched to pick Crump up and bring him back to Oktibbeha county. Duntae Harvey, 21, Harvey turned himself in to the U.S. Marshals service at an apartment complex in Jackson at his family’s encouragement, Lindley said. She said Wednesday afternoon that Harvey is currently in the Clay County Jail.
Mason Perry Jones, 21, of Jackson, was arrested on Sunday night by the U.S. Marshals service in Memphis on a February warrant from the Jackson Police Department for armed Crump robbery. He was arrested in DeSoto County on Monday for capital murder. Lindley said Wednesday afternoon that Jones is in the Oktibbeha County Jail. Lindley said the investigation is on-
going and the MSU Police Department is determining if a gun found near Chadwick Lake is involved in the homicide. “We encourage anybody that has Jones seen anything or (believes they have) information of value to call us,” she said. She said the next step is to set a court appearance for the three suspects and for the police department to continue
to work with the district attorney on the case. As of Wednesday afternoon, she said there is no court date set. Oktibbeha County coroner Michael Hunt ruled the death of John Sanderson, 21, of Madison, a homicide. The autopsy results showed Sanderson was shot twice — once in the chest and once in the arm, which went through into his abdomen. Hunt said it looks like the gun involved in the shooting was a .32 caliber. Hunt said he expects the toxicology results in three weeks.
Parking expands, costs follow BY WILL HAGER Staff Writer
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ississippi State University will add extensions to four parking areas on campus next fall to accompany the completion of the South Zone residence halls: Oak Hall and Magnolia Hall. There will be 746 new parking spaces, costing a total of $2,522,800. Mike Harris, director of parking operations, said construction has begun and will be finished by
the first week in August. Each paved space costs $3,800 for lighting, landscaping, curbs and gutters. Gravel spaces cost $1,200 each. South Zone parking will see the majority of the parking additions. The South Zone parking lot behind Creswell and Hathorn residence halls will expand by 201 spaces, stretching from the end of the current lot to the intramural fields. The currently in construction Arbor Acres student housing will host 275 paved spaces, with the bulk clustered in the northeast corner of the lot. SEE PARKING, 3
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Sanderson remembered as energetic, forgiving BY LACI KYLES Staff Writer
John Sanderson was the type of person who was full of life, always ready for the next venture. The Mississippi State University student who was fatally shot on campus Saturday was remembered by friends and family as lively and kind. Jessica Tree, sophomore wildlife and fisheries major, met Sanderson when she was in the ninth grade and he was a junior in high school. For the two years she knew him and the three months she dated him, she said he was always caring. “I would say he was always energetic,” she said. “He was never tired and always excited to see his friends.” Tree said she was initially attracted to him because he was considered to be the “bad boy” type, yet he treated her incredibly well. “He was really sweet … he would write me
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notes every day that said I inspired him to be a better person,” she said. “He was not a bad person.” Tree said their high school was designed so that ninth grade was held in a different location than tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades. Sanderson would ride the bus to her location every day instead of riding home with friends, just so he could ride home with her. She said he was so much fun Sanderson to be around and remembered him as having a great sense of humor. However, she said he was the type of person you would have to know pretty well to realize how kind he truly was. “It was one of those situations where once you got to know him, he was really sweet,” she said. “He would still take care of you.” Tree said she lost contact with Sanderson after he graduated high school and had not spoken to him since that time.
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The MSU ACCESS program promotes the transition of students with intellectual disabilities into higher education. These students have a desire to continue academic, career and technical, and independent living instruction in order prepare them for gainful empl employment. Source: sss.msstate.edu/access/ ZACH ORSBORN | THE REFLECTOR
Program one of a kind in Miss. BY ALEX HOLLOWAY Contributing Writer
For the last two years, Mississippi State University’s ACCESS program has offered a pathway for students with mental handicaps to be able to experience the college environment. The ACCESS program at MSU allows mentally handicapped students to experience living and learning at college and provides options for education after high school. Rhett Hobart, former Student Association pres-
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ident, said he is excited MSU offers such a program. “We are the only school in the state that offers the program,” he said. “I think it’s a great benefit to our university, as we are the People’s University, and to our state in that we provide this great service to our residents.” Three students are currently enrolled in the ACCESS program. Julie Capella, assistant dean and director of Student Support Services, said two more students are expected to join the program in the fall. SEE ACCESS, 4
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