A Laurel man is accused of shooting into a residence and seriously wounding a woman in what was believed to be a dispute between longtime lovers on the week of Valentine’s Day.
Jerri Collins, 31, was charged with shooting into a dwelling after turning himself in at Laurel police headquarters. He made his initial appearance in Laurel Municipal Court and Judge Zeke Baucum set his bond at $250,000. Collins apparently posted that and was released from the Jones County Adult Detention Center over the weekend, according to jail records.
Collins is accused of using a handgun to shoot into the Ash Street residence of his ex-longtime girlfriend as he walked by in the early hours last Saturday, but the person who was struck by bullets was her cousin, sources with knowledge of the case said. The cousin, who was in a bedroom when shot during the early morning hours last Saturday, has remained in the hospital and undergone multiple surgeries for the gunshot to the body.
The girlfriend, who wasn’t identified, told investigators that Collins pulled the trigger, LPD Chief Tommy Cox said. Collins later turned himself in.
Investigator Macon Davis is in charge of the case.
Murder suspect Douglas “Rudy” Haynes, 36, of Laurel, who was being held on $500,000 bond, also appeared in jail records as being “released,” but he was sent back to the custody of the Mississippi Department of Correction to serve the remainder of a five-year charge for possession of a firearm by a felon. He will still face a first-degree murder charge when his time on that charge has been completed.
Haynes is accused in the September shooting death of 32-year-old Jeremy Jones at South Park Village and was on the lam for more than two months before being taken into custody in Moselle.
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