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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man pleads to 2023 Haven Acres shooting
TUPELO – A Lee County man arrested nearly two years ago at the age of 16 and charged as an adult has pleaded guilty to shooting into an occupied Haven Acres house. Quintaveon Armstrong, 18, of Jan Street, Verona, pleaded guilty to the charge of shooting into a dwelling in Lee County Circuit Court on May 19. Judge John White sentenced Armstrong to 10 years in prison but suspended seven years of that sentence. When he is through serving the three-year sentence, Armstrong will have to serve an additional five years of post-release supervision. He must also pay $2,396.50 in court costs, a $1,000 fine and $500 in court fees. Police were summoned to a house in the 2000 block of Beasley Drive on July 15, 2023, at around 1:45 a.m. According to officials with the Tupelo Police Department, responding officers located an occupied home with multiple bullet holes. Multiple people were in the house at the time of the shooting, including children, but no one was physically injured. Police recovered ballistic evidence at the scene. One bullet was lodged in the house about 6 inches from where a baby was sleeping. Shortly after the shooting, police located a black Infinity sedan trying to leave the area and made a traffic stop. The four occupants of the car were detained. According to police, a search of the car revealed two stolen firearms. Armstrong, who said at the time he lived around the corner on Robert Kennedy Drive, was charged as an adult and initially held without bond. After he was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned, he was released on a $100,000 bond.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man pleads to 2023 Haven Acres shooting
TUPELO – A Lee County man arrested nearly two years ago at the age of 16 and charged as an adult has pleaded guilty to shooting into an occupied Haven Acres house. Quintaveon Armstrong, 18, of Jan Street, Verona, pleaded guilty to the charge of shooting into a dwelling in Lee County Circuit Court on May 19. Judge John White sentenced Armstrong to 10 years in prison but suspended seven years of that sentence. When he is through serving the three-year sentence, Armstrong will have to serve an additional five years of post-release supervision. He must also pay $2,396.50 in court costs, a $1,000 fine and $500 in court fees. Police were summoned to a house in the 2000 block of Beasley Drive on July 15, 2023, at around 1:45 a.m. According to officials with the Tupelo Police Department, responding officers located an occupied home with multiple bullet holes. Multiple people were in the house at the time of the shooting, including children, but no one was physically injured. Police recovered ballistic evidence at the scene. One bullet was lodged in the house about 6 inches from where a baby was sleeping. Shortly after the shooting, police located a black Infinity sedan trying to leave the area and made a traffic stop. The four occupants of the car were detained. According to police, a search of the car revealed two stolen firearms. Armstrong, who said at the time he lived around the corner on Robert Kennedy Drive, was charged as an adult and initially held without bond. After he was indicted by a grand jury and arraigned, he was released on a $100,000 bond.
