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BAY ST. LOUIS
Police look for suspect in slayings
ALLISON LONG/THE SUN HERALD
Bay St. Louis Patrol Commander Robert Lee and officer Don Ocso talk outside the Railroad Avenue house where two people were shot to death this week. Their bodies were discovered Friday.
Bodies of man, woman discovered
By METRIC DOCKINS_____________
THE SUN HERALD
BAY ST. LOUIS ? Police late Friday were looking for Julie A. Winborn, 32, for questioning in connection with the shooting deaths of her husband and mother, who were found in their home on Railroad Avenue on Friday morning.
Waveland police also want to question Julie Winborn in connection with an April 9 shooting in Waveland.
The bodies of Inez Kingston Bouis, 67, and Winbom?s husband, Grady Winborn, about 45, were found around 9:15 a.m. Friday in their house at 129 Railroad Ave. Both had been shot, but police had not determined a motive by late Friday.
Police were searching for Julie Winborn and her son from a previous marriage, Charles Polk, 7.
Police Chief Frank McNeil said Winborn and Polk are believed to be traveling in Inez Bouis? maroon 1990 Honda Accord with Mississippi handicapped license plate
E6V1. On the front bumper is a Keesler Air Force Base identification sticker.
McNeil said Winborn may be armed and should be approached with caution.
McNeil said David Bouis, the
dead woman?s son, found the bodies when he stopped by to visit. He said Inez Bouis was found covered up in a sitting position in a living room chair. Overweight and generally in poor health, Inez Bouis was virtually
housebound, according to neighbors.
The naked body of Grady Winborn was discovered under the
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covers in an upstairs bedroom. Both had been shot once in the head. Police beiieve they had been dead for several days. McNeil said the last report they have of anybody seeing anyone at the house was around Monday.
McNeil said police found a gun in a case, but they do not know if it is the weapon used in the shootings, noting that it was not near either body.
?She is someone we would like very much to talk to,? McNeil said of Julie Winborn, adding that no warrants have been issued for her arrest.
McNeil said police have no apparent motive. He said the house, though not immaculate, showed no
signs of a struggle or forced entry. He said police were told that Julie Winborn has a gambling problem.
Waveland Police Chief Jimmy Var-nell said Winborn was at the Waveland Manor Apartments before and after a woman was shot there April 9. The woman survived the shooting. He said Winborn told police twice that she would would come in and talk but has not.
Grady Winborn worked at a lumber company in Gulfport but had not reported to work in several days. Police did not know if Julie Winborn had a job.
Jeff Nancarvis bought his house at 125 Railroad Ave. from Julie Winborn.
?I wouldn?t picture her being involved in anything like this,? Nancarvis said. ?I know she had a bad gambling addiction and was trying to deal with that. It?s hard to believe
that in a small town like this something like this could happen, but then you wake up to a bunch of squad cars and police tape.?
The Victorian-style, two-story house with gingerbread trim was one of two
?	both owned by Inez Bouis ? that county officials had talked about possibly buying several months ago as a site for a youth detention center. Bouis was not interested in selling.
Autopsies were performed Friday, but results were not immediately available.
The Biloxi Police Department?s crime laboratory is assisting local police in processing the scene.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Bay St. Louis police at 467-9221.
Metric Dockins can be reached at 467-6663 or 896-2438 or at maildrop@sun-herald.infi.net


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