Former Yalobusha police officer indicted on murder charges

Posted on Mar 19 2014 - 7:23am by Caty Cambron
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Officials investigate the scene of a homicide in November. Regis Mister was indicted on two charges of manslaughter. Photo: Thomas Graning, The Daily Mississippian.

A Lafayette County grand jury indicted Regis Mister, 26, in connection to the Nov. 8, 2013 shootings of his mom Dr. Carol Lavett Gary, 43, and his half-brother Patrick Earl Gary Jr., 12.

The grand jury returned the indictment charges on Feb. 28, 2014. Mister is being charged with two counts of manslaughter.

The bodies of Carol Gary and Patrick Gary were found in their home on County Road 301 in the South Oaks subdivision after Oxford Police Department deputies responded to a call around 6 a.m. Friday morning.

Carol Gary was the principal of Davidson Elementary School in Water Valley. Patrick Gary was a student at Oxford Middle School.

Mister is a former school resource officer for the Water Valley School District, but was not employed by the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department at the time of the shooting.

Authorities have not released the motive for the shootings.

As for now, Mister is being held in the Lafayette County Jail.

— Caty Cambron

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