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HEARTBROKEN AT LOSING HER ONLY CHILD 17 ARYE OLD JALEN SIMS WAS GUNNED DOWN WHILE HE WAS HOLDING HIS TWO MONTH OLD SON. BULL AND THE WINDOW AND A DOOR ARNE THE SCENE WHERE CANTON POLICE SAY 17 YEAR OLD JALEN SIMS WAS STHO AND KILDLE OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY ON NORTH CANAL STREET. SHEAY SS SOMEO SNEHOT INTO THE HOME. SEVERAL SHOTS RANGERS SHOT INTO THE HOMESTREK AND HER SON ONE TIME IN THE HEAD. AARON JONES TOLD US HERON S WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM HOLDING HIS TWO-MONTH-OLD SON WHEN A BULLET CAME TO THE FRONT WALL AND STRUCK HIM IN THE HEAD JONES SAYS SHEAW S A DARK COLORED NISSAN DRIVING SLOWLY DOWN THE STREET NEAR HER HOME MINUTES AFTER SHE WENT INTO THE HOUSE THE SHOTS RANG OUT JONES BELIEVES THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT SHOOTERS IT SOUND LIKE WHOEVER WAS IN THIS CAR WAS WAS WAITING. ON TO CASE OUT THE PLACE TO SEE WAS HE THERE OR SEE WAS HE’S COMING FROM THE INFORMATION THAT SHE SHARED WITH US, BUT HE WAS ALREADATY HOME. AND TONIGHT THE CHIEF TELLS US THEY HAVE NO LEADS AND NO MOTIVE IN THIS DEAYDL SHOOTING. THEY’R’ ASKING ANYONE WITH INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO CALL THE POLICE OR CALL THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE LIVE

Teen holding infant son fatally shot while trying to take cover, mother says

Police investigate the shooting that killed Jaihlen Sims

Police are investigating a shooting that killed a teenager in his home in Mississippi.The shooting was reported at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Canton, which is 27 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi.Chief Otha Brown said someone drove up to a house and fired several shots. Jaihlen Sims, 17, was in a bedroom holding his 2-month-old son when the shots were fired, according to Erin Jones, the teen’s mother. Brown said Sims was trying to get up and run to take cover when he was shot in the head. Sims’ mother told police that hours before the shooting, she spotted a dark-colored Nissan driving up and down the street, but at the time, she didn’t give it a second thought. “It sounds like whoever was in this car was waiting, or trying to case out the place,” Brown said.Brown said there were five to seven calls about shots fired before and after the fatal shooting.Police have not identified a motive or a suspect in the shooting. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.

CANTON, Miss. —

Police are investigating a shooting that killed a teenager in his home in Mississippi.

The shooting was reported at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday in Canton, which is 27 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi.

Chief Otha Brown said someone drove up to a house and fired several shots. Jaihlen Sims, 17, was in a bedroom holding his 2-month-old son when the shots were fired, according to Erin Jones, the teen’s mother. Brown said Sims was trying to get up and run to take cover when he was shot in the head.

Sims’ mother told police that hours before the shooting, she spotted a dark-colored Nissan driving up and down the street, but at the time, she didn’t give it a second thought.

“It sounds like whoever was in this car was waiting, or trying to case out the place,” Brown said.

Brown said there were five to seven calls about shots fired before and after the fatal shooting.

Police have not identified a motive or a suspect in the shooting. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS.