Suspect turns himself in after fatal shooting in Latimer, sheriff says
Update 8/02/2021: Christopher Brown turned himself in Friday afternoon, a sheriff’s department spokesperson said. His bond was set at $500,000.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department is on the hunt for a murder suspect.
Investigators are looking for Christopher Jerome Brown, 30, in connection with the fatal shooting Saturday of Nicholas Darnell Pittman, 36.
Authorities are calling the shooting domestic related.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell says Pittman went to a home on Theriot Avenue near Latimer on Saturday afternoon to pick up his son, who lives there with his mother and Brown. The two men argued and then Pittman was shot.
Brown was gone before deputies got to the house. Deputies searched the area on foot using a K-9.
A murder warrant was issued for Brown.
Anyone with information about the case should call the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department.
This story was originally published July 25, 2021 at 12:26 PM.