UPDATE: The children have been found safe at a family member’s home in Gautier.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for four missing children believed to be taken by their father around 10:30 Wednesday night, March 26.
Deputies responded to a shooting at the children’s home on Santa Fe Avenue in the St. Martin community. Their father, 24-year-old Karis Hamilton, was arrested around 5 this morning in the neighborhood.
He is facing murder and domestic violence/aggravated assault charges. Authorities have not said who Hamilton is accused of killing.
The children are identified as Karis Martin, 7 years old, Lalina Hamilton, age 4, Genive Hamilton, age 3, and Mariah Hamilton, 2 years old.
Anyone with information on the children’s whereabouts should call the sheriff’s department at 228-769-3063 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 877-787-5898.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
