Dewitt Echols, who was originally indicted with first-degree premeditated murder, avoided a mandatory life sentence after the jury determined he did not kill 33-year-old James Johnson in a ...

Dewitt Echols, a 34-year-old from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, faces one count of first-degree premeditated murder after a grand jury previously indicted him for the murder of 33-year-old James Johnson.

Surveillance video showed Ersland, a pharmacist, firing a shot that incapacitated Antwun Parker. After chasing away his accomplice, Ersland fired more shots into an unconscious Parker.

Ersland, now 72, sought an early release from his life sentence for the 2009 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker during an attempted robbery at Reliable Discount Pharmacy. In May 2009 ...

They soon arrested three teenagers—Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin—charging them with murder with little to go on but Misskelley's confession. They accused the boys of ...

Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book ...

One freshman in particular stood out to Frazier in 2024. “I would say Coen Echols made the biggest jump, just his physicality at the point of attack. It’s just something you don’t see in people ...