Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department investigating suspicious death
Published 9:40 pm Tuesday, September 5, 2017
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This story has been corrected to fix a misspelling of the suspect’s name.
Investigators with the Pearl River County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a suspicious death brought to their attention after being asked to conduct a welfare check on the resident of a home on Newman Road outside of Poplarville.
Tuesday night investigators served an arrest warrant on 60-year-old Steven Stuart, of Ridge Crest Estate in Long Beach for murder, said Chief Investigator Marc Ogden.
Identification of the deceased is pending notification of next of kin.
This story will be updated.