A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman whose body was discovered inside her Yazoo City apartment home last weekend.
Lavonte Ellington was apprehended by the Yazoo City Police Department moments ago in the Tchula area and has been charged with murder, said Chief Kenny Hampton.
Yazoo County Coroner Ricky Shivers said Margaret Harris, 33, was pronounced dead on the scene by Pafford paramedics around 1 a.m. last Saturday inside her Graystone Apartment home.
Shivers said he believed she died a few hours earlier, around 11 p.m. Friday. The official cause of her death is pending autopsy results, which Hampton hopes to receive by the end of the day.
"We began handling this incident as a murder investigation after the victim was found with a gunshot wound," Hampton said. "Although we are waiting on official autopsy results, this is still a murder investigation."
More details will appear in the next edition of The Yazoo Herald.
