A burned body found Lawrence County led to the arrest of a Brookhaven man in Lawrence County Tuesday, officials said.

According to Lawrence County Sheriff Ryan Everett, Timothy LaShun Hathorn was arrested Wednesday night, and authorities are looking for another person of interest.

Police have sent DNA to the Mississippi State Crime Lab to see if the body found in Lawrence County is definitively Reggie Bridges, a missing person from McComb.

Everett said Tuesday morning at approximately 7:30 a.m., the Lawrence County Sheriff’s office responded to a call where a body had been located in the Silver Creek area.

The MS State Fire Marshal’s Office, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation and their Crime Scene Unit, the Lawrence County Coroner’s Office and the McComb Police Department were inv

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