Inmate accused of Edwards double homicide found hanged in jail cell

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation along with the Hinds County Coroner’s Office are investigating the death of an inmate at the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond.

Deputies reported finding Justin “Bobo” Mosley hanged in his jail cell just before 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon.  He was unresponsive and pronounced dead shortly thereafter.

Mosley was a pre-trial detainee awaiting trial on two counts of capital murder in the shooting deaths of 57-year-old Michael Lawson and 27-year-old Djuana Robinson occurred on January 26, 2020.  He was arrested several days later by United States Marshals and Hinds County Deputies in Bolton.

Mosley had been housed in the detention facility since his arrest.