22-year-old will spend most of his life in jail after murder sentence, Coast DA says
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- Jackson County DA Angel Myers McIlrath calls the murder senseless after sentencing
- Quinton Biggs pleads guilty to second-degree murder; gets 40 years day-for-day
- Victim unarmed in Red Roof Inn lot; surveillance shows Biggs shooting him
“This murder was senseless,” Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIrath said Monday after a 22-year-old was sentenced to jail for decades as a habitual offender.
Quinton Nerdine Biggs, 22, of St. Martin, pleaded guilt to second-degree murder for the 2023 killing of Raishon Frazier.
Biggs was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Calvin Taylor to serve 40 years in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Because he was prosecuted under Mississippi’s habitual offender statue, he must serve those 40 years, day for day, without parole.
“The defendant didn’t just steal the victim’s life and future,” McIlrath said, he forfeited his own and shattered the lives of all who loved them both. There are mothers grieving sons, children grieving fathers — one young man buried, another behind bars.”
The investigation showed the two men had a prior dispute and on July 20, 2023, came to the parking lot of Red Roof Inn on Cook Road, near Ocean Springs, to fight.
Jackson County deputies responded to a call of a shooting near the hotel and found Fraizer lying in the parking lot with gunshot wounds.
Surveillance video from the site showed Biggs approached Frazier, who was unarmed, and shot him several times. Frazier died from the gunshot wounds.
Assistant District Attorney Justin Lovorn prosecuted the case alongside McIlrath.
