AG reviews deadly South MS shooting that involved an officer, releases findings

A Jackson County sheriff’s deputy was justified in using force in a Nov. 2025 shooting in Lucedale that resulted in the death of 42-year-old Nicholas Adams Parker, a Mississippi Attorney General’s review concluded.

The deadly shooting was one of four in the state subject to review, with the Attorney General’s Office finding that all the shootings were justified. The other shootings were in Sept. 2004 in Olive Branch, May 2024 in Ridgeland and Sept. 2023 in Magee, the office said in a brief news release Thursday.

The Lucedale shooting followed a standoff with Parker at a home on Blackberry Lane after law enforcement officers went there to serve a warrant, official reports indicated at that time. George County officers initially approached the home and were later joined by a Jackson County regional SWAT team.

Anita Lee

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Anita, a Mississippi native, graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and previously worked at the Jackson Daily News and Virginian-Pilot, joining the Sun Herald in 1987. She specializes in in-depth coverage of government, public corruption, transparency and courts. She has won state, regional and national journalism awards, most notably contributing to Hurricane Katrina coverage awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. Support my work with a digital subscription