Two arrested, charged in Clay County murders

Published 4:56 pm Friday, March 17, 2017

WEST POINT (AP) – Two men were arrested early Friday morning and charged with a Tuesday afternoon double homicide in Clay County.
The Clay County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics arrested Shundray Johnson, 22, of Mantee; and Tabarrius Coffey, 24, of Calhoun City. The men are scheduled to be carried before a judge Friday afternoon and formally charged with murder in the shooting deaths of Kentario L. Boyd, 23, and Kenya Campbell, 23, both of Tupelo.
The couple were found dead in a red Chrysler PT Cruiser on an isolated stretch of Dixie Road near Highway 46 and just a mile from the Webster County line. It is also about a mile from Mantee.

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