A Choctaw County man is being held on a $1 million bond for the shooting death of Jimmy Threadgill two weeks ago.
Charles Anthony Cox, 40, is being held in the Choctaw-Winston Regional Correctional Facility near Louisville after being arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with Threadgill’s death.
Threadgill’s body was discovered by two fishermen January 29 in a canal off the Big Black River near Stewart-Huntsville Road in Montgomery County, although Montgomery County Sheriff Jeff Tompkins said the murder is thought to have been committed in Choctaw County and Threadgill’s body placed in the canal after death.
Montgomery County Coroner Allan Pratt pronounced Threadgill dead at the scene and took the body to the Mississippi State Crime Lab in Pearl for autopsy.
Tompkins said the autopsy revealed Threadgill died from a single gunshot. There was no missing persons report filed on Threadgill to help estimate an exact time of death, but Tompkins said his body was in the canal no more than three days before it was discovered.
According to the Choctaw Plaindealer, Choctaw County Sheriff Bradley Busby said Threadgill had lived in Montgomery County for quite some time, but recently had been staying near the Cox residence in Choctaw County.
Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department, Choctaw County Sheriff’s Department, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation are working together on the investigation of this case.
