Bullets hit two Biloxi apartments with children, parents inside
A Pass Christian man was shooting at a car when two of the seven rounds went into two apartments at Beauvoir Manor in Biloxi, where two mothers and five children had to take cover, according to federal criminal complaint.
In one apartment, a mother said she was in her bedroom when one of the rounds from a 9 mm Glock pistol busted through a window and shattered a mirror inside. Her two children, ages 11 and 13, were in her home with her.
In an adjacent apartment at the Stennis Drive complex, the complaint says, another round busted through a living room window where a mother and her three children, ages 8, 6 and 5 sought cover.
Biloxi police responded to the April 21 shooting at the apartment complex and recovered 12 of the shell casings fired, in addition to two other rounds that hadn’t been used.
Police arrested David Dedeaux III, 21, on two state charges of shooting into an occupied dwelling after witnesses identified him as a suspect.
Dedeaux wears GPS monitor because he’s on supervised release through the Mississippi Department of Corrections. The monitor led authorities to a home on Morton Avenue in Pass Christian, where Dedeaux lived with his father.
When authorities got there, they found Dedeaux sitting in the passenger seat of a pickup truck smoking a cigar. Inside the truck, police seized the pistol believed to be used in the shooting.
Dedeaux had been on supervised release through MDOC for more than two years as a result of his conviction and sentence on a state charge of receiving stolen property.
After further investigation by federal authorities, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dedeaux was booked on an federal criminal complaint charging him with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
Dedeaux is being held at the Harrison County jail on a total bond of $200,000 on the state charges. Justice Court Judge Albert Fountain set the bonds.
MDOC issued a parole warrant for Dedeaux.
The GPS monitor that tracks an offender placed Dedeaux at the scene of the shooting at Beauvoir Manor Apartments, the complaint, confirming his alleged involvement in the attack.
