MISSISSIPPI
The Clarion-Ledger
Mississippi corrections officials say a man accused of killing a Catholic priest and setting off in his car on a Disney vacation has been found dead in a prison cell of an apparent suicide.
Jeremy Wayne Manieri, 33, was charged with shooting the Rev. Ed Everitt of Hammond, La., in July 2011 at a beach house in Waveland, Miss.
Manieri’s attorney, Brian Alexander, confirmed that he was found dead early Thursday morning. Manieri was being held at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County.
Manieri was a handy man at the house used by a group of Catholic priests as a beach retreat. Prosecutors said he shot Everitt with the priest’s own gun.
Manieri had claimed he shot Everitt after he passed out from alcohol and marijuana use and found the priest fondling him. But investigators had charged robbery was the motive because when Manieri was arrested in Florida authorities said he had the priest’s car, gun and wallet.
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