MISSISSIPPI – Two men are in custody and a third is wanted in the death of Carolyn Temple, a Jackson woman who was shot last week and died Monday night.
Antreal Jones and Jerome Moore, both 17, were arrested after a standoff with police at McDowell Road and Woodside Drive. They were initially suspected in at least one carjacking, but police suspected they were involved in the January 7 incident on Euclid Street when Temple was robbed and shot. She died of her injuries Monday night.
Jones and Moore have both been charged with capital murder and armed carjacking. A third suspect in Temple’s death has been identified as Antwain Dukes, 16. A capital murder warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Carolyn Temple was shot in the stomach last week just after she arrived at the Belhaven home of her boyfriend, Conner McAllister. She had gone to the street to bring up the garbage cans from the curb when she was attacked by two men who attempted to take her purse. When she resisted, they hit her in the head with the gun and then shot her.
On Monday night, Temple’s daughter, Tress Gardner, posted on Facebook that her mother had died. She asked for prayers as her family faces her mother’s death, especially in the case of her twin boys who have lost their grandmother.
“On behalf of my mom and my dad, I just wanted to thank everyone for the love, prayers, thoughts, calls, visits, etc…,” she wrote. “My mom put up a hell of a fight and I am so very proud of her. She was so tired, and I know she is no longer hurting and is at peace. Please keep my family in your prayers as we face the ordeal of a homicide investigation. The twins are going to be the ones who need the most support right now. Again, I can not thank you all enough. I love you Mom.”
McAllister, who was grief-stricken on Tuesday morning, said Temple died when she aspirated while taking a pill. He said she was the most beautiful woman he’d ever known. (read more)

MISSISSIPPI – The two men arrested today after standoff with police at Woodside Drive have been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Carolyn Temple.
On Tuesday night, police said in a release that Antreal Jones and Jerome Moore, both 17, were involved in the January 7 incident on Euclid Street when Temple was robbed and shot.
She died of her injuries Monday night.  A third suspect in temple’s death has been identified as 16-year-old Antwain Dukes. A capital murder warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is considered armed and dangerous.
The arrests come after multiple law enforcement agencies were called to Woodside and McDowell, where police were in a standoff with the two suspects.

Police were called onto the scene when the men crashed a stolen vehicle into a tree in a woman’s front yard on Woodside.
Officers in full SWAT gear were among those who searched the neighborhood for the two suspects, which were finally found hiding in a home on Woodside. Vance said there was someone else in the home, but he said it’s unclear if the person was assisting the alleged carjackers, or if they even knew they were there.
Vance told the media at the scene that the vehicle recovered at the scene was a white 2011 KiaSorrento, which had been taken in a carjacking at 1:30 a.m. off Old Canton Road.
Officers first spotted the vehicle, Vance said, and began to follow it. When the suspects saw the police, they got out and fled on foot.  (read more with video)