3rd North and Grove Street shooting suspect sentenced to 12 years for previous charge

Vicksburg, Miss.-The arrested 3rd North and Grove Street shooting suspect was sentenced in the Warren County Circuit Court on Thursday for a previous crime.

In 2020, Judge James Chaney suspended Darion Turner‘s twelve-year sentence related to a 2019 aggravated assault charge. This morning, Judge Chaney revoked that suspension due to his involvement in the in Nov. 27 shooting and Turner will now serve the twelve years previously suspended.

Turner was arrested in December 2024 for a shooting on Nov. 27 shooting near 3rd North and Grove Street that injured one person.

Although Turner must now serve the original 12-year sentence in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, he may also face an additional setence for the new charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Assistant DA Branan Southerland represented the state in this case.

Mississippi Law on those who are convicted of Aggravated Assault:

 A person is guilty of aggravated assault if he (a) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury purposely, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or (b) attempts to cause or purposely or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon or other means likely to produce death or serious bodily harm; and, upon conviction, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year or in the Penitentiary for not more than twenty (20) years.