Nation IN BRIEF : MISSISSIPPI : 4 Children Slain; Police Seek Uncle
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Police near Greenwood, Miss., continued the search for a man accused of stabbing to death four young children after his sister refused to give him money to buy crack cocaine. Henry Curtis Jackson Jr., 26, allegedly crashed through a bedroom door at his mother’s home and stabbed to death the four children, all his nieces or nephews between the ages of 2 and 5. Neighbors in the Rising Sun subdivision just south of Greenwood said the stabbings occurred after Jackson’s sister refused to give her brother money for drugs.
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