A man is in custody today after Mississippi’s first openly gay mayoral candidate was found murdered and his body dumped alongside a river.
Lawrence Reed, 22, of Clarksdale is reportedly being held as a person of interest but has not been charged, sources said.
Rising political star Marco McMillian, 34, was found dead on the Mississippi River levee at around 9am on Tuesday. Reed was allegedly driving McMillian’s SUV when it was involved in a head-on crash around that time.
The relationship between the two men is unclear. An autopsy report on McMillian’s cause of death is expected later today.
