01-06-2026 14:00 via mississippitoday.org

One Night in Mhoon Valley

Two weeks before Halloween in 2009, Tameshia Shelton dialed 911 and stepped into the darkness outside her trailer in rural Clay County.
Under a towering oak, her sister’s 21-year-old boyfriend lay face down, a gunshot wound through his chest.
How Danelle Young died that night is a question that courts have wrestled with since 2015, when a judge sentenced Shelton, a mother of four with no previous criminal record, to life in prison for murder.
That answer holds the key to her freedom.[00:0
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