Son arrested after 77-year-old father found dead in Gulf Park Estates home
A 77-year-old man’s death in the Gulf Park Estates community of Ocean Springs is being treated as a homicide, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a press release.
Deputies responded to a 911 call late Tuesday morning and found the body of Thomas Donald Baxter inside his residence on South 8th Street.
Later in the day, sheriff’s investigators and the U.S. Marshals located the victim’s son, 48-year-old Robert Dane Baxter, in Gulfport and arrested him in connection with the death.
The two men lived together in the home, Ezell said in the release.
Robert Baxter is held on a murder charge at the Jackson County jail with no bond after an initial court appearance on Wednesday.
An autopsy is pending to determine Thomas Baxter’s cause of death, Ezell said.
This story was originally published January 18, 2022 at 10:42 PM.
