La. man sentenced for role in deadly Hattiesburg shooting
La. man sentenced for role in deadly Hattiesburg shooting Demethius Dixon (Source: Hattiesburg Police Department) By Chris Thies | March 3, 2021 at 1:12 PM CST - Updated March 3 at 1:12 PM HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - A Louisiana man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for the part he played in a deadly 2016 shooting in Hattiesburg. A federal judge sentenced Demethius Dixon, of Shreveport, La., to 10 years in prison and five years of probation for carrying and using a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, resulting in the firearm being discharged. The shooting happened in the pa...