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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A federal judge in Mississippi has awarded $2.2 million to the children of a woman who was slain by a former Oxford police officer. Judge Glen Davidson called off Thursday’s hearing in the civil case against former Oxford police officer Matthew Kinne after he said he heard enough to make a key […]

OXFORD, Miss. (Mississippi Today) – The family of Dominique Clayton, the 32-year-old mother of four who was shot and killed by former Oxford police officer Matthew Kinne, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Oxford Police Department, the City of Oxford and Kinne on Thursday. Clayton was killed by former OPD officer Kinne the morning […]

OXFORD, Miss. — Former Oxford police office Matthew Kinne was sentenced to life without parole Friday in the death of 32-year-old Dominique Clayton. Kinne entered a guilty plea in a deal to avoid the death penalty. Clayton, a 32-year-old mother of four, was shot dead at her Oxford home May 19, 2019. The victim’s family […]

A former Mississippi police officer is expected to plead guilty after a deadly shooting.

Mississippi residents’ lives in 2019 were disrupted by a large-scale immigration raid and prolonged flooding in the Delta. People mourned the deaths of two longtime elected officials, and voters chose a new governor.

A former Oxford police officer pleaded not guilty Monday in the May murder of Dominique Clayton, a mother of four with whom he was allegedly in a relationship.

The indictment, filed Friday, charges Matthew Kinne with capital murder, which is punishable by the death penalty.

A former Mississippi police officer accused of killing a woman is being moved to another jail after a picture posted online showed him unguarded outside his cell.

An attorney for Dominique Clayton’s family has sent the City of Oxford a notice of claim for $5 million in her death, allegedly at the hands of an Oxford police officer with whom she’d been romantically involved.

The attorney for Dominique Clayton’s family says two officers who recently resigned did so due to “improprieties” with the investigation involving her death. 

Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill says the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office is conducting an internal investigation of the Oxford Police Department at the city’s request, following the accusations that a former Oxford officer murdered a woman.