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Mississippi Murder Suspect’s Weapon Found In Escambia
June 14, 2011
The Escambia County Sheriff’s dive team found a handgun Monday afternoon that was used in the murder of a Mississippi woman.
Last Friday, 56-year-old Dennis Hurley walked into the Pascagoula Police Department and confessed to killing his girlfriend, Diana Davis.
Deputies in Jackson County, Mississippi, went to Davis’ apartment and found her body. She had suffered from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Hurley told investigators that he had driven from Mississippi to Pensacola, Florida where he threw the handgun used in the crime off a pier.
“We were contacted by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Mississippi and asked for help in locating the gun,” said sheriff’s office spokesman Deputy Chris Welborn. “Our dive team, with the assistance of the Jackson County Sheriff’s dive team, found the gun this afternoon in the Santa Rosa Sound.”
The gun, a Browning .32, had been thrown from the fishing pier that lies alongside the Bob Sikes Bridge that connects Gulf Breeze to Pensacola Beach.
Deputies also found bloody clothing that belonged to Hurley in a trash can on the pier.
Jackson County, Mississippi investigators have charged Hurley with murder. He was out on bond after an arrest last year on domestic violence involving Davis.
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6 Responses to “Mississippi Murder Suspect’s Weapon Found In Escambia”
That little piece of paper called a TRO has never and will never stop anyone that is determined to do harm to someone else. In my career I have seen far too many violations that have ended tragically.
he must have had some sort of remorse or maybe overwhelmed by his conscience possibly, as he did turn himself in and assisted w/the evidence collection…sad all the way around.
@Kaye. Can not blame Davis here she is the victum. There are some people who are evil when they get mad at you. Obviously he is one of them. These kinds of people are without a doubt the most selfish people there is. They get so focused on what ever it is that made them mad that they become insane! There is no justification. Just saying.
He had already been arrested on Domestic, to bad she didn’t see the
hand writing on the wall. It doesn’t stop unless you stop it and walk,
it just gradually gets worse. Some people just don’t know how to
talk things over and sometimes people are just WRONG for each other.
Some people just don’t know when to cut and run.
A Browning 32 auto, the Germans used these in wwII, I wonder if it was an old war trophy?
I remember him from about 40 years ago, he lived in P’cola.