Suspect in MS state trooper’s killing also faces murder charge in Gulfport, police say
One of three men accused in the shooting death of an off-duty Mississippi state trooper was extradited to Gulfport to face new felony murder and armed robbery charges.
Damion Whittley, 25, has been in custody in New Orleans since Saturday, where he was arrested on a first-degree murder charge in the killing of Mississippi Highway Patrol Lt. Troy Morris.
Now, Whittley is accused in two killings.
His latest charges are the result of an investigation into the May 8, 2019, robbery and shooting death of Bay St. Louis resident Delfred Lewis Jr., 20, Gulfport police said.
That shooting happened around 3:45 in the 600 block of 25th Street. His total bond on the two charges in that case is $1.5 million.
Whittley and two others, Treyon Washington, 24, and Cdarrius Norman, 17, were arrested in the killing of the 57-year-old Morris on Friday.
Morris was off-duty and driving a personal vehicle to transport mail as a contract driver for the U.S. Postal Service when he had to pull over on the shoulder of Highway 61 in Jefferson County because of a flat tire.
Morris called in for assistance with the tire, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, but was shot in his personal vehicle before help arrived.
This story was originally published August 12, 2020 at 2:28 PM.
