Update: Attala County Coroner Sam Bell identified the person who died at the McAdams home Sunday night as 49-year-old Melvin Nash of McAdams. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:26 p.m., and his body is to be sent to the state crime lab for autopsy.
A woman has been charged with second-degree murder following a shooting at a home on Attala Road 4134 in McAdams Sunday night.
According to an investigator with the Attala County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were responding to a disturbance at the residence when they were notified that someone had been shot.
Scanner traffic indicates that a female caller reported shooting a man who had allegedly “jumped on her”. The man was deceased when authorities arrived, and his identity has not been released.
Pauline Bass, 68 of Attala, was taken into custody and questioned at the Attala County Sheriff’s Office. She was later charged with second-degree murder and is being held at the Leake County Correctional Facility.
