{"id":116428,"date":"2021-12-24T11:14:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=116428"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T17:14:43","slug":"oxford-mississippi-man-arrested-in-missouri-for-fatal-motel-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-man-arrested-in-missouri-for-fatal-motel-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Man Arrested in Missouri for Fatal Motel Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man from <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong>, is accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding another at a <strong>Missouri <\/strong>motel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Clifton Smith Jr.<\/strong>, 26, was arrested following the incident Wednesday morning at the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Town+House+Inn\/@37.3753385,-89.6632808,15z\/data=!4m8!3m7!1s0x0:0xfffecec2b5f57514!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d37.3753393!4d-89.6632805\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Town House Inn<\/strong> in <strong>Jackson, Missouri<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident happened a few hours before sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <strong>Jackson Police Department<\/strong>, Smith entered into several rooms. In one room, he allegedly shot two men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One shooting victim died and the other was shot multiple times and is in serious condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say Smith then exited the room and started shooting into other occupied rooms from the outside and through the windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Law enforcement officers then managed to take him into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smith faces murder, assault and burglary charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CliftonDSmith.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"522\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CliftonDSmith.jpg?resize=522%2C648\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CliftonDSmith.jpg?w=522&amp;ssl=1 522w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CliftonDSmith.jpg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><figcaption> Clifton Smith Jr., 26 years old, of Oxford, Mississippi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Oxford, Mississippi, is accused of fatally shooting one person and wounding another at a Missouri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":116430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10397],"tags":[20130,20129,20128,366,20127,5,5143,20132,11282,4,4207,20131],"class_list":["post-116428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-clifton","tag-clifton-smith","tag-clifton-smith-jr","tag-jackson","tag-jackson-police-department","tag-mississippi","tag-missouri","tag-motel","tag-murder","tag-oxford","tag-smith","tag-town-house-inn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-12-24-CliftonDSmith.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}