Demetrious Lawan Averett v. State of Mississippi

BARNES, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. At approximately lí:30 p.m. on July 2, 2012, Marion County Deputy Sheriff Lon Ward was on patrol in Columbia, Mississippi, when he saw something run across Highway 13, several hundred yards in front of his patrol car. He heard an audible security alarm from the nearby Northside Package Store and noted that the glass door to the business was broken. Officer Richard Pack with the Columbia Police Departihent was dispatched to investigate. Surveillance video from the store revealed that two suspects, one male and one female, had thrown a cinder block through the…