Mother and daughter found dead in Mississippi home, son shot in Florida

Two women, Doris Crimmins, 84, and her daughter, Kimberly Hernandez, 63, were found dead Friday inside a home in Long Beach, Mississippi, after police responded to a report of a shooting. Authorities said Crimmins’s death appeared to be natural, while Hernandez’s is being investigated as a homicide. Investigators named Crimmins’s son and Hernandez’s brother, Richard Timothy Ward, as a suspect and later located him in Pensacola, Florida. Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said Ward pulled out a gun and fired at deputies, who returned fire and wounded him; he was taken to a hospital. The investigation is ongoing, and autopsies were planned to confirm the women’s causes of death.