Man arrested for January murder
By Brian Livingston
blivingston@themeridianstar.com
Officials with the Mississippi Highway Patrol said Friday a Clarke County man has been arrested and charged in the Jan. 26, murder of Daryl Hilton of Laurel.
Patrick Dewane Jones, 29, was taken into custody without incident at about 5:20 a.m. Friday at his Clarke County home located at 367 CR 232.
Hilton, 27, was found by a passing motorist lying near his car at an emergency crossover road of Interstate 59 at mile marker 109 about three miles south of Heidelberg.
