‘It was basically a lover’s quarrel’: Man killed by girlfriend’s ex-husband while visiting Mississippi

GREENE COUNTY, Miss. (WALA/WLBT) – An Alabama man was shot and killed by his girlfriend’s ex-husband over the weekend in what’s being described by officers as “a lover’s quarrel.”

The sheriff’s workplace in Greene County, Mississippi, the place the incident came about, says that it began when Michael Anthony Holder went to his ex-wife’s dwelling not solely to shoot Logan Wainwright, but in addition himself.

Wainwright was courting Holder’s ex-wife on the time.

“It was principally a lover’s quarrel or no matter on his half, and I do assume that’s the way it went down,” stated Chief Deputy Brad Warrick.

Authorities acquired the decision on Saturday, and after they arrived to the house, they discovered Wainwright within the entrance seat of his Dodge Challenger. He had been shot a number of instances.

In accordance with investigators, the home the place the taking pictures occurred is the place Holder’s ex-wife lives.

“[The] man was deceased and it was a number of gunshot wounds,” Deputy Warrick stated. “A number of rounds had been fired contained in the car. I counted 27, 28 rounds by the hood and the windshield of the car.”

Deputy Warrick says Holder was hiding, ready on his ex-wife and Wainwright to drag up collectively to confront them with a loaded rifle.

“They pulled up within the yard, acquired out of the car, he come[s] out from inside her dwelling, which was not their dwelling. It was her dwelling after the divorce,” Warrick defined. “And he or she confronted him and he began taking pictures. She bumped into the woods.”

Deputy Warrick says throughout the taking pictures, Holder additionally acquired right into a gun battle with the neighbor – his ex-wife’s stepfather.

“Her father, really her step-father, heard the pictures and got here down there along with his gun. Apparently he took fireplace additionally from Mr. Holder. He did return some fireplace. We nonetheless assume the gunshot wound is self-inflicted,” he stated.

Wainwright, a Mount Vernon, Alabama, native, was a former youth coach. His funeral is deliberate for subsequent Tuesday.

The household is asking all donations go to Freemans’s Funeral Dwelling in Citronelle, Alabama.

Deputy Warrick says Holder is in secure situation – closely sedated – at a hospital in Jackson. The warrant for the cost of homicide will probably be signed as soon as he’s launched.

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