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Chisholm sentenced to life for capital murder The Commercial Dispatch
William Thomas “Tommy” Chisholm was sentenced to life without parole after an Oktibbeha County Circuit Court jury found him guilty Friday of capital murder.
Chisholm, 44, of Kosciusko, murdered his ex-girlfriend, Dr. Shauna Witt, an optometrist who operated the eye clinic at Walmart Vision Center on Highway 12 in Starkville on Jan. 13, 2018. After the four-day trial, the jury deliberated only 26 minutes before delivering the verdict.
Because Chisholm is convicted of capital murder, the only options are life in prison or the death penalty, the latter of which the victim’s family prosecutors not to pursue. District Attorney Scott Colom said he knows the family can now rest knowing justice is served for Witt.
“This family, they have waited long enough,” Colom said in his closing statement.
William Thomas “Tommy” Chisholm was sentenced to life without parole after an Oktibbeha County Circuit Court jury found him guilty Friday of capital murder.
Chisholm, 44, of Kosciusko, murdered his ex-girlfriend, Dr. Shauna Witt, an optometrist who operated the eye clinic at Walmart Vision Center on Highway 12 in Starkville on Jan. 13, 2018. After the four-day trial, the jury deliberated only 26 minutes before delivering the verdict.
Because Chisholm is convicted of capital murder, the only options are life in prison or the death penalty, the latter of which the victim’s family prosecutors not to pursue. District Attorney Scott Colom said he knows the family can now rest knowing justice is served for Witt.
“This family, they have waited long enough,” Colom said in his closing statement.
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