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WDAM says Jarvis Gray, 33, was charged with first-degree murder after a Saturday death on Morningside Drive.

WDAM staff, published Nov. 8, 2026, at 2:09 p.m. CST, reported the Hattiesburg Police Department charged Jarvis Gray with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence. The photo caption on that page spells the second charge tempering. An earlier WDAM page, published Nov. 7, 2026, at 2:33 p.m. CST, says Forrest County Coroner Lisa Klem confirmed the death was a homicide and that the victim is female. That page does not print a name.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

Booking photo of Jarvis Gray
Photo: Forrest County Sheriff's Office via WDAM

Tampering, in the article, and tempering, in the caption, are not the same word. Detained, on Saturday's page, and taken into custody, on Sunday's page, are not the same verb. The victim is female on the Saturday page. She is not named on either page. A charge is not a conviction.

WDAM, by WDAM Staff, is published Nov. 8, 2026, at 2:09 p.m. CST. The visible update line, when the page was opened, read "4 hours ago" and did not print a clock. The page's published time and modified time in the metadata are the same instant, 2026-11-08T20:09:16.197Z. The dateline is HATTIESBURG, Miss. The opening says the Hattiesburg Police Department has arrested and charged a man in connection with a homicide that occurred in the 3900 block of Morningside Drive on Saturday. It names Jarvis Gray, 33, of Hattiesburg, and says he was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence. The photograph under that sentence is captioned, "Gray was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and tempering with evidence." Tampering, in the sentence, and tempering, in the caption, are not the same word, and they are on the same page. The caption credit is the Forrest County Sheriff's Office. The article says Gray was located and taken into custody in the 1000 block of Turtle Creek Drive without incident. It says investigators confirmed that Gray and the victim were in a domestic relationship. It says he is currently being held in the Forrest County Jail. It does not print the victim's name, sex, or age. It does not print a weapon, a bond, a court date, or a time for the Saturday call. It does not print North 39th Avenue. A WDAM frame on the site prints the name JARVIS GRAY under a Hattiesburg Police Department banner, with the lines ARRESTED SATURDAY and 1ST DEGREE MURDER; TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE, and a bug that reads 5:01 with no a.m. or p.m. Arrested Saturday is that frame. It is not a day the Sunday article prints for the arrest. The Sunday article prints Saturday for the homicide. Hattiesburg Police Department, on the frame, and the Forrest County Sheriff's Office, on the caption, are not the same credit. First-degree, in the article, and 1ST DEGREE, on the frame, are not the same typography. Tampering, on the frame, matches the article and does not match the caption's tempering.

The earlier WDAM page, at the address that had carried a large-police-presence headline, is now titled as the coroner's confirmation. It is published Nov. 7, 2026, at 2:33 p.m. CST. The metadata published time and modified time are the same instant, 2026-11-07T20:33:18.467Z. The byline is WDAM Staff. The dateline is HATTIESBURG, Miss. It says Forrest County coroner Lisa Klem confirmed to WDAM 7 that the death on Morningside Drive on Saturday was a homicide, and that the victim is female. Female is that page. It is not on the Sunday arrest page. The same page then prints an ORIGINAL STORY section. That section says leaders with the Hattiesburg Police Department said officers are "investigating a death" reported Saturday in the 3900 block of Morningside Drive at North 39th Avenue. At North 39th Avenue is the Saturday page. It is not on the Sunday page. It says officers responded to the area and located one dead individual, and that HPD did not release what time officers responded. It says one person has been detained in the 1000 block of Turtle Creek Drive in connection with the investigation. Detained, on that page, and located and taken into custody without incident, on the Sunday page, are not the same verb, and the block is the same block. The Saturday page says HPD has not released the victim's identity or the suspect's identity. The Sunday page names Gray and still does not name the victim. The Saturday page does not print a domestic relationship, a jail, a charge, or the Forrest County Jail. It says detectives are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the death. The Sunday page does not reprint that sentence.

The Sunday page does not say the person the Saturday page called detained is Gray. It names Gray, and it puts the custody in the same 1000 block of Turtle Creek Drive. Of Hattiesburg, and 33, are the Sunday page. The Saturday page does not print an age. Neither page prints a cause. Neither page prints the coroner's ruling on the Sunday story. Lisa Klem's confirmation that the death was a homicide, and that the victim is female, is the Saturday page. A homicide confirmation is not the first-degree murder charge. The charge is what the Sunday page says Hattiesburg police filed. The caption's tempering is the caption. The article's tampering is the charge word the article uses. The frame's ARRESTED SATURDAY is the frame. The jail, on the Sunday page, is the Forrest County Jail. No bond is printed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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