A Choctaw County man, Charles Anthony Cox, 40, is being held at the Winston-Choctaw County Regional Correctional Facility, in Louisville, having been charged with first-degree murder in connection with a body that was discovered in a canal in the Stewart area of Montgomery County week before last.
Cox was arrested Tuesday, February 4 and is being held under a $1M bond for the murder of Jimmy Threadgill, 53.
According to Montgomery County Sheriff Jeff Tompkins, Threadgill’s body was discovered by two fishermen on January 29 in a canal off the Big Black River near Stewart-Huntsville Road in Montgomery County.
Choctaw County Sheriff Brandon Busby stated that it appears the murder took place in Choctaw County and Threadgill’s body was then transported to the canal.
Montgomery County Coroner Allan Pratt pronounced Threadgill dead at the scene and took the body to the Mississippi State Crime Lab in Pearl for autopsy.
Tompkins said the autopsy revealed Threadgill died from a single gunshot. There was no missing persons report filed on Threadgill to help estimate an exact time of death, but Tompkins said his body was in the canal no more than three days before it was discovered.
According to Busby, Threadgill had lived in Montgomery County for quite sometime, but recently had been staying near the Cox residence in Choctaw County.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, Choctaw County Sheriff’s Department, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation are working together and the case is still under investigation.
