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Clarion Ledger
March 22, 2015
The trigger man in the March 2012 homicide of a Madison County Mississippi State University student pleaded guilty to murder on Thursday.
Mason Perry Jones, of Jackson, is one of three men accused in the shooting death of John Sanderson, 21, inside a dormitory at MSU. He pleaded guilty to first degree murder in Oktibbeha County circuit court Thursday afternoon, after being previously charged with capital murder.
Assistant District Attorney Katie Moulds said the DA’s office was ready to go to trial on Monday if something had changed in court Thursday, but Jones pleaded guilty to first degree murder, which affords him the possibility of parole at age 65.
Sanderson was shot twice in a dormitory on the Starkville campus. Police quickly rounded up Jones and Duntae Harvey and Trent Deundra Crump, both of Rankin County. The suspects were all 21 at the time of the shooting.
The other two have not yet been tried. Moulds said prosecutors expect Harvey and Crump to take plea deals as well, but that she would be in touch with their attorneys in the next few weeks.
“Mason Perry Jones was the shooter in this case, so that’s why he was the one we were most concerned with,” Moulds said.
Sanderson’s family had a part in deciding whether to accept the plea or not, Moulds said.
