Man accused in cousin’s death set for preliminary hearing
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – A 19-year-old Meridian native accused in the beating death of his cousin is due in Jackson County Court for a preliminary hearing.
Dexter Kelley is accused in the March 30 killing of his cousin, 16-year-old Cliff Allyn, outside their grandmother’s home in Vancleave. He is being held in the Jackson County jail on a murder charge.
The Sun Herald reports Kelley could waive the hearing on Monday and the case is automatically bound over to a grand jury for indictment. If not, evidence will be presented and the judge will rule whether to bound the case over to a grand jury for indictment.
Kelley has remained jailed without bond since his March 31 arrest.
Allyn’s body was found in a wooded area about 200 yards behind his grandmother’s home in rural Vancleave.
