Samuel Jerome Andrews of Harrison County, Mississippi, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of shooting into a crowd. The 71-year-old suspect is accused of opening fire inside an AT&T store in Gulfport, where 31-year-old employee Shane Basquill and 78-year-old customer Mary Anne Oberlies were fatally shot.
Authorities said the shooting occurred at around 11:14 a.m. on Monday, 7 September. Three other people were inside the store at Crossroads Mall when the gunfire erupted, but they survived. Andrews was later arrested after police spotted his vehicle leaving the area.
