REPORTING
OFFICER'S NARRATIVE (Brief
narrative of the facts surrounding the offense and the arrest.)
At 7:31 p.m.,
Dispatch received a 911 call regarding a dead body at the address of
1198 Mimosa Road, Oxford MS. The caller identified himself as Kent
Erdell. Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Unit 209 (Officer P. Winston)
was dispatched and arrived at the scene at 7:43 p.m. Upon discovery of
the body at 7:45 p.m., R/O notified Dispatch and requested backup and
medical assistance. Reporting Investigators (R/Is) Detectives T.
Armstrong and S. Murphy were assigned and proceeded directly to the
scene. At R/Is' request, Coroner’s Inspector L. Johnson and a CSU team
were notified to respond to the scene. R/Is arrived at the scene at
8:03 p.m. Upon arrival, R/Is found that R/O had secured the area.
Environmental conditions at the scene upon arrival are as follows:
Weather: Exterior crime scene location; Ambient Temperature:
approximately 52°F/11°C;
Relative Humidity: approximately 55%.
R/O Winston made
the following verbal report, which is stated in summary and not
verbatim. R/O was met inside the guest cottage where the victim was
staying. Erdell led R/O into the recreation room to the body of an
apparently dead adult male, later identified as Blake Jenson (Person
1). At R/O's then called for backup and Crime Scene Tech Unit. R/O said
YCFD EMTs R. Peterson and J. Bilkey arrived at approximately 8:05 p.m.
and, after confirming the victim was deceased, withdrew from the crime
scene.
After receiving
the report from R/O Winston, R/Is conducted a preliminary inspection of
the scene. In the recreation
area of the guest cottage, R/Is observed a lifeless human body, a male
apparently in his early 20’s. Visual inspection indicated the victim
was wearing a light gray T shirt, gray pants
and sneakers. The victim was lying face down. R/Is observed black marks on the guitar he had been using.
Coroner's
Inspector Luwinda Johnson arrived at the scene at approximately 08:21
p.m. and joined R/Is at the body's location. Inspector Johnson
pronounced the victim deceased at 8:25 p.m. by visual observation that
the victim was not breathing and by tactile observation that the victim
did not have a palpable carotid pulse. Inspector Johnson visually
examined the posterior of the body and observed no visible trauma and indicated that further details
would be available in the official autopsy report. After Inspector
Johnson completed her initial inspection of the body, she stayed with
the CSU team to ensure integrity of the body, while the team took
photographs of the scene and performed preliminary analyses, until the
body could be removed from the scene without affecting other evidence.
CSU arrived at
the scene at approximately 8:32 p.m. R/Is instructed CSU to process the
entire scene according to standard procedure.
CSU will conduct
a more intensive search and report their findings.
R/Is left the
scene at 8:45 p.m. Before leaving, R/I Murphy instructed CSU to seal
the scene upon completion or end of day suspension of processing. CSU
to notify R/Is of progress by the end of this date. As of this filing,
CSU is still actively processing at the scene.
At the station,
R/Is interviewed witness Kent Erdell. (interview transcript attached).
Body of the
deceased remanded into the custody of Coroner's Inspector Luwinda
Johnson. Deceased was removed from scene at 9:17 p.m. and transported
to the coroner's office for autopsy.
Evidence remanded
into the custody of Forensics Officer T. R. Douglas for transport to
the State Crime Lab for routine analysis. CSU is expected to submit an
inventory of items taken into evidence within fourteen days of this
report, with detailed report(s) of their findings to follow at a later
date. |
