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Man jailed in double murder |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
By BRIAN HAWKINS
Starkville Daily News
A Maben man remains jailed today in connection with the late Sunday night shooting deaths of his wife and another woman and the shooting of another man at a mobile home on Harrell Road.
Moses Leon McBride, 26, of 2166 Harpole Road, Maben, was charged Sunday night with two counts of capital murder, one count of burglary of an occupied dwelling at night while armed and seven counts of aggravated assault.
In an initial Justice Court appearance Monday, Judge Jim Mills set McBride's bond at a combined $180,000 for all counts. McBride remained in the Oktibbeha County Jail Monday afternoon.
McBride is charged in the deaths of his wife, Erica Denise McBride, 28, also of 2166 Harpole Road, Maben, and Stephanie Nicole Bedford, 19, of 2819 Harrell Road, and aggravated assault in the shooting of Prentiss Cork, 26, also of 2819 Harrell Road shortly before midnight Sunday, said Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan on Monday.
Deputies were sent to Cork and Bedford's Harrell Road home at 11:49 p.m. Sunday in response to a shooting report, Bryan said. Upon arrival, Bedford was found dead of a gunshot wound to her upper body and Cork was found with a gunshot wound to the leg in a bedroom on the east side of the mobile home, Bryan said.
Erica McBride was found dead about 30 yards from the mobile home in a wooded area with a gunshot wound to her upper body and stab wounds to her stomach and throat, Bryan said. Cork was transported to Oktibbeha County Hospital, where he was treated for his wound and later released.
Moses McBride was arrested at 1:38 a.m. Monday in Maben, Bryan said.
Nine people — Cork, Bedford, Erica McBride and six children — were inside the Harrell Road mobile home when the suspect forced his way into the front door and went into the bedroom at the west end of the mobile home where his wife was staying, Bryan said.
"He was very angry," said Bryan on Monday. "They were having some conflict in their relationship."
Bryan would not comment on the nature of the conflict between the McBrides.
The suspect fired at least one shot at his wife — with at least three of the children in the nearby living room at the time — and then walked to the east end of the mobile home where Cork, Bedford and their two children were located, Bryan said.
The suspect then shot Bedford and then Cork before leaving the mobile home in pursuit of his wife, who had fled the mobile home on foot into the nearby woods.
The suspect then found his wife and stabbed her multiple times with a pocket knife before leaving the scene.
Upon arresting the suspect, sheriff's deputies recovered the .357 Magnum handgun used in the shootings and the pocketknife they believe he used to stab his wife, Bryan said.
Because of the threat of physical danger to the six children in the mobile home at the time the suspect broke in, he was charged with individual counts of aggravated assault for each child under provisions of state law in addition to the two capital murder charges and the aggravated assault charge from Cork's shooting, Bryan said.
The bodies of Erica McBride and Bedford were transported Monday morning to the Mississippi Crime Laboratory in Jackson for autopsies, Bryan said.
Deputies have no other suspects in connection with the double homicide and shooting, though some investigative work is continuing, Bryan said.
"We don't anticipate any great surprises. We feel like this investigation is pretty well wrapped up," Bryan said.
The Starkville and Maben police departments assisted sheriff's deputies with the investigation, Bryan said.
Information about funeral arrangements for Erica McBride and Bedford will be published as soon as they become available.
The deaths of the two women are the third and fourth homicides to take place in Oktibbeha County in 2008.
A Mississippi State University student was beaten to death in an off-campus apartment on March 7, while a young Starkville woman was shot to death during a fight with another woman at Pecan Acres.
Suspects in both of those cases have been arrested and remain jailed.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 18 June 2008 )
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