Alabama

Phenix City police catch suspect in Sunday fatal shooting

Phenix City police have captured the suspect sought in the fatal shooting Sunday of Kishard Miller.

Officers called at 12:33 a.m. to 1310 Eighth St. found Miller dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was 30 years old.

Investigators announced Sunday that they had warrants charging 33-year-old Jasper Jermaine Miller with murder, and were searching for the suspect.

Miller was arrested at 11 p.m. Monday and held in the Russell County Jail, police said.

Anyone with more information on the shooting is asked to call police at 334-298-0611 or 334-448-2813.

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Tim Chitwood
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
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Tim Chitwood is from Seale, Alabama, and started as a police beat reporter with the Ledger-Enquirer in 1982. He since has covered Columbus’ serial killings and other homicides, following some from the scene of the crime to trial verdicts and ensuing appeals. He also has been a Ledger-Enquirer humor columnist since 1987. He’s a graduate of Auburn University, and started out working for the weekly Phenix Citizen in Phenix City, Ala.
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