4 dead after shooting at Biloxi, Mississippi, motel and subsequent carjacking; possible suspect found dead
The possible suspect in the fatal shooting of the owner and two employees of a Biloxi, Mississippi, motel and subsequent death of a person shot during a carjacking was found dead after a standoff with police Wednesday, authorities said. Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer identified the possible suspect as 32-year-old Jeremy Alesunder Reynolds.
Gulfport Police Department's incoming chief, Adam Cooper, said Reynolds holed up at a Gulfport convenience store after fleeing from a stolen vehicle. Gulfport is just west of Biloxi, where the shootings took place at the Broadway Inn Express motel.
WLOX-TV spoke with the daughter of a motel employee who said the violence started with an argument about money that escalated.
Switzer told news outlets that motel owner Mohammad Moeini, 51; Laura Lehman, 61; and Chad Green, 55, were killed at the motel. Lehman and Green both lived and worked at the motel.
WLOX-TV reported that one witness described a chaotic scene at the motel, with people fleeing.
"You see this on TV. You do this on video games like Grand Theft Auto. This was like something really out of a movie," bystander Percy Robinson told the station.
Police said that after the motel shootings, another man was shot during a carjacking in Gulfport, and he later died in surgery. Switzer identified him as William Waltman, 52.
Cooper said police fired teargas into the store where Reynolds was holed up. After trying to negotiate with him and getting no response, police went into the store and found him dead, Cooper said. An autopsy will be performed to determine how he died.
