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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2011 FROM Police seek two men in Tuesday slaying By Zack Southwell Monroe police issued warrants Thursday for two individuals sought in connection with a fight Tuesday night that left a man dead. Police are looking for Mori Dejuan Turpin, 31, described as 6 feet tall and 175 pounds, and Drukile Kyson Dunn, 23, described as 5 foot 10 inches and 205 pounds, in reference to the death of Edward Charles Scott. Scott, 36, was killed in the 100 block of Stacy Drive after a fight Tuesday night. Capt. Evelyn Robinson said warrants for second-degree murder were issued for both suspects.

She said detectives received information that Turpin had possibly fled to Texas. Robinson said a large group reportedly attacked Scott in the 100 block of Stacy. She said Scott hit his head on the pavement during the fight and later died. WHEN YOU NEED US MOST. MULHEARN funeral Homes.

MulhearnFuneralHome.com Obituaries WWW.THENEWSSTAR.COM Oliver Wilson Funeral services for Mr. Oliver Wilson, 85 of Columbia will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, July 23, 2011 in the Chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home West Monroe, interment services will be at 12:30 PM in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Pineville, LA. Officiating will be Rev. Eric Harriman under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home West Monroe. Mr.

Wilson was born February 14, 1926 in Corey, LA and passed away July 20, 2011 in West Monroe, LA. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Columbia, the Masonic Lodge, Shriners, Lions Club and Kiwanis. He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Wilson. He is survived by his daughter, Terri Evans; son, Donald Wilson; step-daughters, Brenda Murphy and Judy Dudley; sisters, Francile Deck and Doris Browning; brothers, Gary Wilson, Charles Wilson and Orville Wilson; a special friend, Willie Dean Darden; 5 grandchildren and 5 great Pallbearers will be A Strange, Ronnie Darden, Rex Darden, David Wilson, Denious Jacobson and Brock Willett. Visitation will be held Friday, July 22, 2011 from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM at Kilpatrick Funeral Home West Monroe.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.kilpatrickfuneralhomes.com Kilpatrick Funeral Home West Monroe, LA. OBITUARY ADS must be submitted by the funeral home through e-mail to Photographs are to be in jpg format and e-mailed. Our deadline is 4:00 P.M., Monday through Sunday, Obituary hours on weekends and holidays are from 3:00 P.M. until 5:00 P.M. We strive to ensure the correctness of your ads.

The News-Star may not issue credits or rerun ads when proof of copy has been issued. Proof is provided for correctness of text only. It is not representative of the layout and the actual ad may differ, when printed in the paper. Credit will not be issued based on appearance of obit. For more information call the funeral home of your choice or us at 362-0201.

Obituaries are also posted on our website at www.thenewsstar.com THE NEWS-STAR WWW.THENEWSSTAR.COM 6 143 Ouachita Parish West 165 Bayou DeSiard crime zones Monroe 6 KEY 616 Arkansas 3 A West Monroe Cypress Ouachita Parish 15 St. 2 4 8 180 9 Ouachita Turpin 1 Pecanland Mall Millhaven Rd. Parish 3 Thomas 34 4 Rd. 2 Berg Monroe 5 Thomas sauor 6' 3 Ave. Dunn sent to Little Rock for an autopsy.

1 165 Robinson said Scott's body was 15 The incident is under i investigation. Ouachita: Richwood Rd. Anyone with information on these River two suspects is asked to call the Monroe Police Department at 329-2600 or Crime Stoppers at 388-2274. The News-Star MILESTONES p.m. United Sunday Methodist at Lea Church, Joyner Monroe Memorial CRIMES ZONE 4 Vehicular burglary, 500 block Staff report of North Third Street, 9:29 Staff report Max Hale, 67 BASTROP Max Hale, a retired a.m.

Thursday. shipyard employee, died WednesThe following crimes ZONE 6 LOTTERY day. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday those report- Vehicular burglary, 4300 Thursday's ed to the Monroe and West block of U.S. 165, 1:25 a.m.

Pick 3: Not available at Golden Funeral Home. Visitation were among Thursday's Pick 4: Not available is p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Memorial Monroe police departments Thursday. Wednesday's Easy 5: 17-20-31-32-36 Wednesday's Lotto: 13-14-24-29-31-32 Park Cemetery.

and the Ouachita Parish Powerball: 1-4-38-40-42 Sheriff's Office from noon WEST MONROE Wednesday's John Johnson, 41 Powerball: 17 Powerplay: 4 Wednesday through noon ZONE 1 John David "Uncle" Johnson of Thursday. Theft, 600 block of Grantham BIRTHS West Monroe, a millwright, died Times and dates reflect Street, 7:19 a.m. Thursday. Tuesday. Services are noon Friday when the crimes were reGLENWOOD at Mulhearn Funeral Home, West ported.

ZONE 2 LaQuana and Jamarsa Hill, a boy, Bray- Monroe. Burial will be in Roselawn Shoplifter, 1000 block of len Jamar. Memorial Gardens, Calhoun. MONROE Glenwood Drive, 12:13 p.m. Laura and Jason Kirkland, a girl, Myla L.

Keller, 81 ZONE 1 Wednesday. Reese. Burglary, 3200 block of Theft, 1700 block of Virginia Virginia Lou Keller of Sterling- Cypress Shontisha and Nathan Payton, a boy, Jackson Street, 7:33 a.m. Street, 2:58 ton, a retired bookkeeper, died Tues- p.m. Wednesday.

I'zavier NaShawn. Thursday. Damage to property, 200 Adrianah and Justin Roberts, a boy, day. Services are 2 p.m. Friday at block of Blanchard Mulhearn Funeral Home, Monroe.

Street, Justin Wesley Jace. Burial be ZONE 2 1:26 will in Mulhearn Memo- a.m. Thursday. Hannah Treadway, a girl, Iris Delilah. rial Park Cemetery.

Burglary, 1600 block of ST. FRANCIS Burroughs Street, 7:30 a.m. QUACHITA Jill and Sherman Allen, a boy, Colton Eddie M. Kline, 81 Thursday. Information not available.

Blaise. MANGHAM Eddie Mae Kline Amanda and David Aguilar, a girl, Seely died Wednesday. Memorial services Lenor. are 11 a.m. Saturday at Young's ComMichelle and Mack Brown IlI, a boy, munity Memorial Funeral Home.

POLICE no clue where he was or how he got there." He told Mack IV. Visitation is 10 a.m. Saturday until Kayla Flintroy and Demanda Hill, a girl, service time at the funeral home. REPORT bien, and deputies he had taken Ama sleeping pill, Lauren C. Victoria and Chad Gaston, a boy, Axel Edna M.

LaCroix, 53 Staff report oxycontin, a pain killer. JONESVILLE Edna Marie La- Even though Taylor Croix died Services told deputies he Bryer. Aarika Lachney and Val Scarbrough, a Tuesday. are no longer 10 a.m. Saturday at Grace Baptist drank beer, deputies reChurch.

Visitation is 5-9 Friday Pedestrian struck ported smelling alcohol girl, Ava Marie. on p.m. DEATHS at the church. Burial will be in Heard and killed on US 165 his person. Barbara T.

Boyles, 75 Cemetery, Manifest, Monroe police under the direction of Young's Funeral Home. say WMPD books suspect Barbara Thornhill Boyles of a struck male and pedestrian killed late was on sexual battery Monroe, a retired secretary, died Agnes M. Swilley, 90 West Monroe Wednesday. Services are 10 a.m. WINNFIELD Agnes Marie Wednesday on U.S.

165 arrested police Monday Mulhearn Funeral Home, Swilley died Thursday. Services are and Hadley Street. a man 10 at Southern Funer- The preliminary in- accused of sexual Friday at Monroe. Burial will be in Riverview a.m. Saturday battery.

al Visitation begins at 5 p.m. vestigation has concluded According to a press Cemetery. Friday at the funeral home. Burial that James H. Ford, 59, release, police began Dorothy A.

Cherry, 72 will be in Garden of Memories was walking in the outside investigating a report of a OLLA Dorothy Alice Cherry, Cemetery. northbound lane of U.S. sexual battery. Investigaa convenience store manager, died 165 when he was struck tors contacted the 16-yearWednesday. Services are 10 a.m.

Sat- James H. Varnell, 65 by a 2002 GMC Sonoma old victim, who said while urday at Pine Hill Baptist Church, COLUMBIA James H. Varnell pickup truck. she was sleeping at a Urania. Visitation is 4-8 p.m.

Friday died Thursday. Arrangements are Routine toxicology re- friend's residence, she was at the church. Burial will be in Mag- incomplete under the direction of sults are pending on both awakened by Terral Dean nolia Cemetery, Tullos, under the di- Riser Funeral Home. the driver and the victim. Johnson.

rection of Southern Funeral Homes, The investigation is The victim said JohnWinnfield. Whitlock, ongoing. son committed Melvin P. 76 a sexual Melvin P. Whitlock of West Mon- battery on her.

Mary P. Clark, 84 roe, a retired paper mill dispatcher, Bernice man nabbed Investigators spoke to Mary Louise Pettigrew Clark Tuesday. Services are 2 p.m. on attempted witnesses who identified died of Monroe, retired manager of the Friday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, entry Johnson as the perpetraTwin City Catholic Credit Union, West Monroe. Burial will be in Rose- A 64-year-old Bernice tor who had committed died Thursday.

Arrangements are lawn Memorial Gardens, Calhoun. man has been arrested the battery the victim. on incomplete under the direction of PREVIOUSLY ACKNOWLEDGED by Union Parish sheriff's Both the witness and the Mulhearn Funeral Home, Monroe. Booth, Tommy Rodriquez: 11 a.m. deputies accused of trying victim said Johnson had Chad E.

Eppinette, 29 Saturday, Springfield Baptist Church, to enter two houses in been drinking heavily durRAYVILLE Chad Evan Eppi- Lomaland. his community without ing the hours before the member of the armed forces, Bracy, Fred: 10 a.m. Friday, Richwood permission. incident. nette, a died Tuesday.

Services are 10 a.m. Memorial Gardens, Richwood. Van D. Taylor was As the investigation Saturday at Swartz First Baptist Dlugach, Jack: 10 a.m. Friday, Mul- released on total bond of progressed two warrants Church.

Visitation is 5-8 Fri- hearn Funeral Home, West Monroe. $7,000 after being arrested for Johnson were issued p.m. day at the church. Burial will be in Fletcher, Juanita: 1 p.m. Saturday, early Wednesday.

He was for his arrest. The warRhymes Cemetery under the direc- Greater One Baptist Church, Delhi. booked into the Union rants were for a charge of tion of Griffin Funeral Home, West Gay, Lottie 1 p.m. Saturday, St. indecent behavior with a Parish Detention Center Monroe.

Mary's Baptist Church, Monroe. for unauthorized entry of juvenile and a charge of Hicks, Ronnie Louis: 1 p.m. Satur- an inhabited dwelling, at- sexual battery, with a total Bestre Foster, 65 day, First Kingdom Missionary Baptist tempted unauthorized en- bond of $50,000. TALLULAH Bestre Foster, a Church, Tallulah. try of an inhabited dwell- About 4 p.m.

1. Monday, construction worker, died Tues- Jaggers, Fred 1 p.m. Saturday, ing, criminal trespassing Johnson was informed day. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday Hester's Central State Funeral Home, and disturbing the peace of the pending charges at Beckwith Golden Gate Funeral Monroe.

by being intoxicated. for his arrest and turned Home. Visitation is 9 a.m. Saturday Napoleon Joseph: 11 a.m. Taylor told deputies himself into authorities, until service time at the funeral Tuesday, Macedonia Baptist Church, he entered one house without incident.

home. Burial will be in Hodges Monroe. searching for his cat and Johnson was later Cemetery. Patterson, Willie 11 a.m. Satur- then attempted to enter transferred to the OuaArthur 69 day, New Bethany Baptist Church, Oak the second house still in chita Correctional Center Ridge.

search of the cat. Deputies and Freeman, COLUMBIA Arthur Freeman, held in lieu of $50,000 Stephens, Mattie LaVessa: 2 p.m. Fri- reported that Taylor "had bond. a welder, died Thursday. Arrangements are incomplete under the diday, Christian Sharing Baptist Church, Clarks.

rection of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, Wilson, Oliver: 10 a.m. Saturday, Kil- News- Star West Monroe. www.thenewsstar.com patrick Funeral Home, West Monroe. Ada Ada Haddock, Haddock of 83 West Monroe, notice FUNERAL information HOMES to should The submit News-Star by death 4 shopLocal.com a retired activity coordinator, died p.m. daily.

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