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THIS YEAR. AUTHORITIES SAY THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH TO GO ON: A HALF NAKED VICTIM ...LYING ON BRETON STREET. THERE ARE ONLY THREE HOMEOWNERS ON BRETON STREET... THEY TELL US THE OVERGROWN GRASS AND ABANDONED HOUSES NEARBY SELDOM LEAD TO MUCH ACTIVIT DON'T NOTHING REALLY HAPPEN HERE. YOU HEAR GUNSHOTS ALL THE TIME...BUT EVERYBODY KNOW EVERYBODY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT ALL CHANGED ON THE MORNING OF FATHER'S DAY. ONE MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO GO ON CAMERA SAYS HE WAS PICKING UP TRASH AROUND 9...WHE HE MADE THE MACABRE DISCOVERY. I THOUGHT IT WAS A MANNEQUIN. AND I GOT A LITTLE CLOSER AND I SAID, NO THAT'S A BODY JACKSON POLICE SAY THE WOMAN'S BODY COULD HAVE BEEN LYING THERE FOR SEVERAL HOURS. ...BUT THEY DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS WHERE S WAS MURDERED. THE HOMEOWNER WHO FOUND HER SAYS...HE HEARD SOMETHING EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. BETWEEN 2 AND 3, I HEARD A GUNSHOT...JUST ONE SHOT...SO I LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW IN MY RV...I DIDN'T THINK NOTHING ABOUT IT AND THEN I JUST SAW A CAR LIGHT GO DOWN THE STREET DOWN THERE. HAD TO BE HER...BY THE TIME I HEARD THAT SHOT. HE SAYS THE WOMAN WAS PARTIALLY CLOTHED, WEARING JUST A TUBE TOP WRAPPED AROUND HER WAIST. SHE HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD. I'M A MILITARY MAN. SO I'VE SEEN AL KINDS OF STUFF. SO IT DIDN'T REALLY BOTHER ME...IT JUST BOTHERED ME THAT IT WAS A HUMAN BEING AT THIS TIME AND AGE IN THE DAY..LAYING THERE..IN THE STREET. NO FORM OF IDENTIFICATION WAS FOUND ON THIS WOMAN.. ACCORDING TO HINDS COUNTY CORONER SHARON GRISHAM- STEWART. SHE SAYS..HOPEFULLY.. HER IDENTITY WILL BE DETERMINED THROUGH FINGERPRINTS WHEN THE STATE MEDICAL EXAMINER PERFORMS THE AUTOPSY IN THE COMING DAYS. LIVE IN JACKSON. JENNIFER LOTT. 16 WAPT NEWS. THE CITY OF VICKSBURG LOOKING FOR SOME

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