MOSS POINT -- Funeral services are Saturday for a Jackson County Sheriff's investigator and former Moss Point police chief who was killed in an attempted robbery in North Carolina over the weekend.
Frederick Gaston, 49, was shot and killed late Saturday night in Gastonia, N.C., after checking into a motel. He had stopped for the night to break up his two-day trip to Virginia for two weeks of duty with the Air Force Reserves.
He was shot and killed when he went to collect his things from his truck in the motel parking lot. Gaston made it to the motel's lobby, saying he'd been shot in the chest before he collapsed and later died at a North Carolina hospital.
Two teens have been charged with first-degree murder in his death and are being held without bond in a North Carolina jail.
Visitation for Gaston is 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at St. James Catholic Church on Cowan Road in Gulfport. The funeral service begins at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church, with internment following in the Biloxi National Cemetery.
Gaston served numerous years in South Mississippi law enforcement, having worked in Gulfport, Moss Point and Jackson County.
He leaves behind a wife and children. They lived in Woolmarket.
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