Police find items linked to missing family in dumpster 
 
 Laterry Smith is described as an African-American male, standing 5'8" with brown eyes and black hair and weighing 180 pounds. 
 
 Atira Hughes-Smith is described as an African-American female, standing 5' tall and weighing 148 pounds with brown eyes and hair. 
 
 Jaidon is described as an African American child, age seven, standing 3' tall and weighing 44 pounds with brown eyes. 
 
 Jackson Police found a wallet belonging to Atira Hughes Smith and other items connected to the missing family in a dumpster in south Jackson. 
 
 Police found the items in a dumpster at a Shell station at 1133 Raymond Road just before noon Monday. 
 
 Police also searched a home at 835 Combs Street, which is not far from where the items were found. That's where Laterry Smith's mother lives. A neighbor says the mother, and Smith's sisters, who also lived there, moved out Sunday night. 
 
 The missing family consists of seven-year-old, Jaidon Hill; his mother, 30-year-old Atira Hughes Smith and her husband, 34-year-old Laterry Smith. 
 
 According to the Copiah County Sheriff's Department the vehicle the family was traveling in has been recovered. 
 
 Sheriff Jones says, "Were going to put people on the ground looking at certain things there. We believe there are hot spots but as far as knowing where to start going and searching we have no clues." 
 
 The Jackson woman's family says Copiah deputies told them there had been an accident on Shelby Road, just off Highway 18. No one was inside the vehicle. 
 
 The family of Atira Hughes Smith said they last heard from her by phone on Friday. Hughes-Smith told relatives that she was going out of town for a couple of days before the call ended suddenly. 
 
 Sheriff Jones says the family was last seen at a Halloween party in Flowood Friday. 
 
 "I want this to come to a good conclusion. I want that 7 year old back," says Jones. 
 
 Jaidon is described as an African American child, age seven, standing 3' tall and weighing 44 pounds with brown eyes. 
 
 Atira Hughes-Smith is described as an African-American female, standing 5' tall and weighing 148 pounds with brown eyes and hair. 
 
 Laterry Smith is described as an African-American male, standing 5'8" with brown eyes and black hair and weighing 180 pounds. 
 
 If you have any information on this case, you're asked to call Crime Stoppers at (601) 355-8477, the Copiah County Sheriff's Department at (601) 894-3011 or the FBI at (601) 948-5000. 
 
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 Hundreds of people gathered Monday night at Trinity United Methodist Church in Brandon. Many are relatives of 30-year-old Atira Hughes-Smith and her 7 year old son Jaidon Hill who are missing along with her husband, 34-year-old LaTerry Smith. 
 
 BRANDON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Hundreds of people gathered Monday night at Trinity United Methodist Church in Brandon. Many are relatives of 30-year-old Atira Hughes-Smith and her 7 year old son 
 
 Copiah County Coroner Ellis Stuart says the three bodies found inside an abandoned house Tuesday are the missing family, and tells us all three were shot. 
 
 The bodies were found inside an abandoned house off Shelby Road, about a mile from where the family's car was found over the weekend. The bodies have been taken to the state crime lab. 
 
 Copiah County Sheriff Harold Jones says, "The sad part is we have a young child who has lost his life and will not be able to grow up to be the person he should have been." 
 
 Forty-two year old Timothy Burns, of Jackson, who has been taken into custody in connection with the case, led authorities to the three bodies early Tuesday morning. Sheriff Jones says Burns will face charges in the case. 
 
 
 
 Thirty-year-old Atira Hughes Smith, her 7-year-old son Jaidon Hill and Hughes' husband, 34 year old Laterry Smith, disappeared Friday night. Their car was found upside-down and burned in Copiah County, about a mile from where the bodies were found on Tuesday. 
 
 Sheriff Jones says he does not believe the family was in the car when it wrecked. 
 
 On Monday, police in Jackson found items in a dumpster at a Shell station at 1133 Raymond Road that were connected to the missing family, including clothing and a photo ID. 
 
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 Update: The Jackson Police Department has recovered bags of evidence that they say are related to the missing Copiah County family. The police were notified that suspicious items were in the garbage dumpster outside of the Raymond Food Mart gas station on Raymond Road in South Jackson. Among the items found were a woman's blouse and a white t-shirt. 
 
 A prayer vigil will be held at 6:30pm tonight at Trinity United Methodist Church in Brandon for the family. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Copiah County authorities are investigating a fiery car crash, and they say the car's occupants are missing. 
 
 According to Sheriff Harold Jones, a car crashed in the western part of the county near the town of Carpenter off Shelby Road Saturday night. 
 
 Sheriff Jones says the car was upside-down and on fire, and its occupants were gone. 
 
 Authorities need your help locating seven-year-old Jaidon Hill, his mother, 30-year-old Atira Hill and his step-father, 34-year-old Laterry Smith. 
 
 A poster with information about the disappearance says the family is missing from Brandon, MS. 
 
 If you see any of these individuals, please call authorities.
– An entire family who went missing in Mississippi under strange circumstances has been found dead: Three bodies, believed to be those of of Atira Hughes Smith (also referred to as Atira Hill), 30; her husband Laterry Smith, 34; and her son, Jaidon Hill, 7, were found in an abandoned house this morning, WLBT reports. Hughes Smith's family says she told them Friday night, via a strange phone call, that she had to leave town for a few days and was already on the road; the call ended abruptly. On Saturday, police found the family's crashed car, upside down and on fire, but with no one inside, WJTV reports. The bodies were found about a mile from where the car crashed; someone had apparently set it on fire, KLTV notes. Timothy Burns, 42, was taken into custody in connection with the case, and he led investigators to the bodies. Yesterday, police found Hughes Smith's wallet and ID and more of the family's belongings—including a woman's blouse and a T-shirt, with some of the clothes bloodstained—in a gas station dumpster. Police also searched a home near the gas station, where Laterry Smith's mom lives; a neighbor says the mother and Smith's sisters moved out Sunday. (KLTV's source says the occupants left "in a hurry.") Neighbors also say Laterry Smith attempted to run over his wife with a car at the house a few weeks ago. All three bodies found today were shot, the Clarion Ledger reports. Police do not believe the family was in their car when it crashed. It's not clear whether they knew Burns.