Vicksburg Daily News –
VICKSBURG, MS. – A Vicksburg woman was convicted of Aggravated Assault with Extreme Indifference on Tuesday. A jury took 15 minutes to convict Catheann Lee on the solo count in the two-day trial.
Prosecutors Branan Southerland and Micheal Warren represented the state. Lee was represented by Penny Lawson and Stephen McMillin. Circuit Court Judge Toni Terrett presided over the case.
On June 22, 2023, Lee and another woman got into a confrontation. Lee pulled out a pellet rifle and shot the female in the neck, and then fled the scene. The pellet fractured the victim’s C5 and C4 vertebrae.
The victim was flown to the University of Mississippi Medical Center and spent several days in the hospital. Due to the pellet being so close to a nerve, it was never removed.
Warren County Sheriff‘s Deputy T’onna Sims was patrolling the Jeff Davis community on June 25, three days after the incident, when she noticed a female pedestrian walking in the roadway, and attempted to make contact with the individual. Upon spotting the deputy, the individual, who turned out to be Lee, fled on foot. Deputies T’onna Sims, Joseph Stubbs, and Ray Thompson apprehended Lee in the bathroom of a nearby home.
In court, Lee claimed self-defense but the prosecutors, Southerland and Warren, convinced the jury otherwise.
Sims, Thompson, Hunter Anderson, Stacy Rollinson, and Stubbs all testified at the trial.
While on trial, Lee was free on a $5,000 bail that was set last year by Judge Jeff Crevitt. Lee will be sentenced by Judge Terrett next month where she faces the maximum of 20 years in prison.
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