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WCBI News at Six - Thursday, August 20th, 2020
WCBI News at Six - Thursday, August 20th, 2020
WCBI News at Six - Thursday, August 20th, 2020

Good evening everyone... gunfire at a popular apartment complex today.

One person is injured after the oktibbeha county shooting.

The gunfire happened just before noon at aspen heights on blackjack road.

Sheriff steve gladney tells wcbi that deputies were originally called about someone trying to get into an apartment.

Gladney believes the shooting could be a domestic situation.

The male gunshot victim was flown to north mississippi medical center in tupelo.

The shooting remains under investigation.

We will bring you more details as they become available.

Top one person is injured in a drive- by shooting in noxubee county.

Law enforcement released this picture today of the getaway car from surveillance footage.

Investigators say the shooting happened in the cedar creek area on tuesday night.

Several bullets struck a mobile home, where several kids were inside sleeping.

The injured person was standing outside the home.

Noxubee county deputies and macon police are investigating the incident.

If you have any information about this shooting call golden triangle crime stoppers at the number on your screen or local law enforcement.

Roll vo in monitor an alleged drug dealer is in jail after an investigation by the north mississippi narcotics unit.

Wcbi's allie martin has more on what led up to the arrest and how the recent admission of the monroe county sheriff's department into the unit helped move the case forward.

For years police suspected the owner of the property behind me was involved in illegal drug activity.

The property sits in two jurisdictions, lee and monroe counties.

That meant the reach of the long arm of the law was limited, until recently.

Fifty year old samuel leonard ray was arrested without incident wednesday morning, when the lee county sheriff's department, monroe county sheriff's department and north mississippi narcotics unit served a search warrant at his home on causey road.

Investigators seized five firearms, 63 hundred dollars in cash, along with methamphetamine and marijuana.

Ray is charged with possession of meth, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of stolen property.

"definitely couldn't have done it without lee county's help" when monroe county sheriff kevin crook took office in january, one of his first goals was to get the sheriff's department back into the north mississippi narcotics unit.

The previous sheriff had pulled the department from the unit.

Sheriff crook says the ability to share intelligence with others in the unit is vital in cases like this one, where a suspect's property is in two counties.

"because it is aroud the lines of lee county, monroe county, normally, those areas aren't subject to a whole lot of patrol, because they are just on the outskirts, and i know for us, we have had three shootings since january in this area, multiple calls, since i took office.

" "the benefit of working multiple counties is, take monroe county for instance, if they are in the middle of amory and they get 20 pounds of crystal meth, we're proud of that, it never made it to lee county, if we get it then it never made it to another county, because drugs don't stop at county lines or city municipal limits."

With the addition of monroe county, the north mississippi narcotics unit now covers ten jurisdictions throughout the region.

Allie martin, wcbi news roll vo in monitor ray's bond was set at one hundred thousand dollars.

He also had an outstanding warrant from mdoc.

Animation former columbus cfo milton rawle jr. is out of jail on bond.

As we learn how the case unfolded, we also learned about a unique mississippi law.

Rawle was arrested this week after being indicted by a lowndes county grand jury for embezzlement.

He's accused of taking about three hundred thousand dollars from the city.

Cpa wanda holly was hired by the city to do an audit and to see if their suspicions of missing money were accurate.

By law, the state auditor is prohibited from auditing municipalities.

Municipalities must have audits done by private cpa firms. state auditor shad white says it wasn't long before a common trend occurred leading to his office's investigation.

" " she saw some of the financial transcation that didn't quite make sense.

She brought that information to us about a year ago.

We took that information and what she brought to us.

We built that investigation.you see something that looks like fraud so that means somebody lying and trying to conceal what they're doing to attain public property for their benefit you can always contact the state auditors office."

Rawle has been ordered to pay over three hundred 50 thousand dollars.

White believes the scheme occurred over a two-year period, from 2016 to 2018.

Top winona aldermen take no actions on possibly removing a confederate statue from the library grounds.

A special meeting was called this afternoon to discuss the matter.

The statue is located in front of the winona montgomery county library.

Mayor jerry flowers says some citizens, who wished to remain anonymous, asked him to bring the matter before the board.

Flowers says he will research who owns the monument and other related issues and report back to aldermen on september first.

First look stinger first look summary: scattered showers and storms are likely through saturday with lower rain chances sunday and monday.

We're watching 2 tropical systems, one in the caribbean, and another in the upper 80s with winds se 3-7 mph.

The state of mississippi is applying to help the jobless receive more unemployment benefits.

Governor tate reeves says the state is awaiting a response from president trump's administration.

The president signed the order for an additional three hundred dollar a week unemployment benefits back on august 8th.

Each state must apply.

If approved, reeves says the payments will be back dated to august 1st.

Federal guidelines say a person must be receiving at least one hundred dollars a week in state unemployment benefits to qualify for the federal money.

Vo off top college campuses are already dealing with the challenge of positive covid19 cases.

This includes the administrators at muw.

W president nora miller says the protocols have been in place because they knew there would be positive cases.

There are 4 positive cases at the w within the same class or cohort.

Miller says the university worked quickly with the state health department to let students know they were exposed and to work within the group for testing.

Sot the state department of health asked us to treat a certain cohort as an outbreak because there were 3 cases within that cohort.

Their recommendation was that the entire group go into quarantine which is what we have done.

The students, all within the nursing program, are asymptomatic, according to the w.

The university has set aside space on campus for students who live there and are required to quarantine.

Centered the number of new covid-19 cases drops today but hospitalizations remain about the same.

State health officials report 894 new cases and 27 deaths.

Oktibbeha county reported two of those deaths.

One thousand 73 people are in the hospital with confirmed or suspected symptoms. 286 people are in i.c.u.

Regionally, lee county has the most new cases again today with 41.

Monroe county has 20, oktibbeha 19, and lafayette has 17.

High school football season kicks off tomorrow night in alabama.

The lamar county school district says it's not putting a limit on the number of people allowed in the stands..

However.... there will be a few rules in place..

Everyone is required to wear a mask or face covering while they're within 6 feet of someone.... only those in the same household can sit together... everyone else must social distance themselves..

Anyone who doesn't abide by the rules may be asked to leave the game.

"if this is real important to them, whether you believe in the mask, where do you don't believe in the mask, if this is really important to you, for us to try and keep our kids safe and everybody's safe, then just follow the guidelines and put that mask on."

For a full look at the guidelines issued by the alabama department of health... just visit our website at wcbi dot com..

Stinger staying home from the convention seemed like a big let down.

But one delegate says this week has changed everything.

That story ahead on wcbi news at 6.

The democratic national convention is meeting this week... virtually.

Covid-19 is the reason why delegates are at home this year.

State representative kabir karriem is one of those delegates.

Wcbi's stephanie poole joins us live in the studio with an inside look at a virtual political convention.

Delegates are responsible to cast the vote of who they want to see elected as the presidential nominee for their party.éé this state leader says being part of the democratic national convention over the last three days has been nothing short of empowering.

éé " it's a great experience and i just thank my colleagues for electing me to represent them in the state of mississippi."

State representative kabir karriem was selected out of the first congressional district to represent mississippi as a national delegate to the democratic convention.

He's attended national conventions dating back to 2008 for former president barack obama.

Now, karriem says, it's his turn to be apart of that process for this year's election.

" everything has built up to this particular point and we're just looking forward to a very strong ending with the convention and looking forward to joe biden accepting the nomination.

I go down in history as being a delegate that voted for and was help elect the first female of color to represent a national party."

Even though the convention is virtual due to covid-19, karriem says there's still a strong presence of unity across the board.

" i'm participating in some of the events that they have even though if we were in milwaukee we would be going to different events and meeting.

They have set those things up online.

They have a pre-kickoff convention rally tonight with a host on congressmen."

Leading up to the presidential election in a few months, karriem is urging the public to get out and cast their ballots in november.

" this is one of the most important elections of our lifetime and i just can't encourage, i can't say it enough.

We need to roll vo in monitor karriem represents house district 41.éé the final night of the democratic national convention will be held tonight remotely.éé we will hear from democratic presidential nominee joe biden here on wcbi at 9:00 pm.éé stinger two shot weather tease weather open summary: scattered showers and storms are likely through saturday with lower rain chances sunday and monday.

We're watching 2 tropical systems, one in the caribbean, and another in the open atlantic.

Both could impact areas along the gulf coast by early next week.

Be sure to stay with us for updates on any impacts that could occur here.

Thursday night: variably cloudy with a few showers and storms possible.

Lows in the upper 60s.

Winds se 0-5 mph.

Friday: partly cloudy with a 50- 60% chance of scattered showers and storms. most of them will occur from late morning through the afternoon and early evening hours.

Highs top out in the mid to upper 80s with winds se 3-7 mph.

Friday night: scattered clouds with a chance of a shower or storm.

Lows in the upper 60s to around 70.

Saturday: party cloudy with a 40% chance of pop-up showers and storms. highs in the upper 80s.

Lows near 70 saturday night.

Sunday-monday: overall quiet with a mix of sun & clouds.

A few spotty showers or t-showers can't be totally ruled out but the rain chance is just 20%.

Highs in the lower 90s.

Tropics: the forecast for our area tuesday & wednesday is going to be highly dependent on where the two tropical systems end up.

We may end up having showers, storms, and heavy rain or much drier and warmer weather.

Thankfully we have many days to keep watching and updating the forecast so stay tuned.

Follow @wcbiweather on facebook, twitter, instagram, and the wcbi news app stinger the high school football tour wraps up with the columbus falcons...see the final preview, next in sports spx mississippi governor tate reeves continues to support college football's plan to play this fall this afternoon, the governor announcing a plan that limits game day events and spectators exeucitve order no.

1519 lays out the follow plan for college game days under the order...no more than 25% seating capacity will be allowed and tailgating among other game day events will be prohibited as to who will be allowed into the games, that decision will be left up to the individual universities according to governor reeves for the full details, you can visit our website at wcbi.com ladies and gentlemen, we conclude the high school football tour with our preview of the columbus falcons.

The falcons enter year two under head coach joshua pulphus ready to make some noise!

The columbus falcons are stop number 60 on the tour.

"expect excellence.

That's our goal.

We're not going to limit or say we just want to make it to the playoffs.

We just want to make it to the division championship or state championship.

Our goal and standard is to expect excellence.'

That's the approach and mentality of the columbus falcons as they work to soar above the competition this season.

In year one for head coach josh pulphus, the falcons went 4-7 following a win- less 2018 season.

Now entering year two under pulphus, the foundation is set for the team to continue improving, and it all starts with how the falcons closed last season.

"i was their third head coach in three years so just getting them to trust me and buy in was one of the toughest things.

Once the kids did it, we went on a roll towards the end of the year."

A key point the coaching staff prioritized that's helped shift the culture is getting stronger.

"when we first got here, i wanted to put an emphasis in the weight room.

That's one thing that we did.

They started buying into the weight room.

Buying into lifting during the season.

Buying into extra conditioning during the season.

Just doing what it takes to win."

"we good on the defensive side.

We play physical on the offensive line.

Physical on the defensive line.

Play physical on the front seven.

I believe we can do something."

Pulphus says he's extremely proud of the work his team has put in this off season led by his senior class.

"our kids come in everyday.

They work.

They work everyday so i've been proud of my senior leadership.

My senior leadership and the juniors buying in and wanting to get that losing taste out of their mouth.

Coming in with great work ethic."

"as a team, i want us to be one team.

One heartbeat."

"i want to see all of us come together as one and play as one.

I wouldn't say its hunger but play altogether."

The falcons compete in a difficult region in 5a highlighted by the reigning state champs west point, but columbus looks forward to seeing what they can make happen on the gridiron this season.

"we're just excited and ready to go out and play.

Win, lose, or draw.

We're just happy to kind of get back to some normalcy.

We're just ready to see where the chips may fall."

"i'm trying to get to the playoffs.

We haven't made it in a long time so i'm trying to get to the playoffs."

Columbus travels to take on louisville september 4th.

With the falcons on the high school football tour, chris bolton wcbi sports.

When we return...chief meteorologist keith gibson will have a last so some downpours on radar some of towards wynonna we are watching these other storm cells just for salvage were southeasterly back is where regions of the city of valencia by the media tonight or tomorrow.

Maybe saturdays will the dryer sunday and i will just keep watching those systems on the gulf and the limit see what ways of doing

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