Police say man shot sleeping 6-year-old, then her mom before killing self in hotel room
Published 11:57 am Sunday, August 30, 2020
A man shot and killed himself in a Mississippi hotel room after shooting his teenage girlfriend and her 6-year-old daughter after a domestic dispute.
The three were in Jackson to visit the Jackson Zoo.
Police were called to a hotel on Greymont Avenue Sunday morning.
Apparently Myles Perkins, 26, had gotten into an argument with his girlfriend Marlanque Braggs, 19.
Perkins reportedly brandished a handgun and shot the sleeping 6-year-old girl twice, then shot Braggs. Then he went into the bathroom and committees suicide.
The condition of the two shooting victims was not immediately released.