Vancleave teen beaten to death, no bond for suspect
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) – Jackson County authorities say the 16-year-old died from a beating last week and his body dumped in the woods about 200 yards from his grandmother’s home in rural Vancleave.
Sheriff Mike Ezell says 19-year-old Dexter Kelley is accused in the killing of his cousin Cliff Allyn.
At a court appearance Tuesday, multiple news outlets report County Court Judge T. Larry Wilson denied Kelley bond and said an attorney would be appointed to represent him.
Ezell said Allyn’s official cause of death is blunt force trauma to the body from a beating.
Kelley is being held at the Jackson County jail on a first-degree murder charge since his arrest Thursday. He was arrested shortly after sheriff’s K-9s discovered Allyn’s body.
