Authorities say a man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in Mississippi has been killed in a shootout with Arizona state troopers. Fifty-four-year-old Ivory James Welch III was wanted in connection with the deaths of his mother and two sisters. The bodies were discovered Sunday at a home in Ridgeland, Mississippi.
MORENCI, Ariz. — A man suspected of fatally shooting three family members in Mississippi has been killed in a shootout with Arizona state troopers, according to authorities.
Welch’s vehicle was seen leaving the crime scene and “we tracked it all the way through to Dallas and understood it was obvious he was on the run,” Ridgeland Police Chief Brian Myers said in a statement. Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said troopers located Welch around 7:30 a.m. Monday on a highway near Morenci. The small eastern Arizona town is about 30 miles west of the New Mexico border.
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