The body of missing Jackson State University student Latasha Norman was found Thursday, leading police to arrest her boyfriend, charging with him murder.
Norman, a 20-year-old accounting student from Greenville, Miss., was found dead in a wooded area on Brown Street near County Line Road in Jackson, according to the Jackson Police Department.
Norman’s boyfriend, 24-year-old Stanley Dwayne Cole, is in the Jackson jail, being held without bond in connection with the death.
Cole was arrested Thursday morning when he appeared in a Pearl, Miss. courtroom on charges of simple battery involving an earlier incident with Norman, authorities said.
Investigators questioned Cole several hours. Based on information from the interviews, authorities were able to locate the body, although he did not give a motive for the murder.
Cole also was a student at Jackson State, according to Anthony Dean, the university spokesman.
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