Two charged in fatal shooting

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, September 10, 2014

    A Meridian man was fatally shot late Monday night in the 600 block of 33rd Avenue and two people have been charged in his death.

    According to Lauderdale County Coroner Clayton Cobler, Bobby Ray Armstrong, 55, of Meridian was shot several times in the back and pronounced dead shortly before midnight Monday night.

    Meridian resident Jacoby Dixon, 20, has been charged with murder and is in custody in the Lauderdale Detention Facility on no bond. Omeika Brown, also of Meridian, has been charged with accessory after the fact.

    The case will be presented to the next available grand jury, Meridian Police Department Detective Dareall Thompson said.

    “Anybody who was in the downtown area knew who Bobby Ray was,” Cobler said of the victim. “He was a deaf-mute and just a real sweet guy. He wouldn’t hurt anybody if he could.”

    By Tuesday afternoon, any trace of the shooting that occurred in the 600 earlier was gone.

    Residents lingered outside in the sunshine on one side of the street, a child played in a lot on the other.