Ole Miss Student Booked for Murder of Girlfriend

By Richard Lake
rlake@clarionledger.com

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Police have arrested the boyfriend of a University of Mississippi student found stabbed to death in an off-campus apartment.

David Jackson Williams, 22, also an Ole Miss student, is being held without bond on a murder charge at the Lafayette County Detention Center, police said.He is accused of killing Demetria Bracey, 21, a senior from Jackson who graduated from Murrah High in 2002. Williams is a senior business major from Olive Branch, Ole Miss officials said today.

Bracey was found dead in an apartment near campus on Tuesday afternoon. Police said she had been stabbed in the chest.

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University administrators today bemoaned Bracey's death. "The entire university community mourns the loss of Demetria Bracey," Ole Miss Chancellor Robert Khayat said in a statement.

"She was an outstanding student, well-respected by her fellow students and our faculty. All of us are deeply saddened by the tragic circumstances of her death."

Said Melinda Pullen, associate director for resident life: "Demetria was a bright and vibrant young woman who, as a resident assistant, took every opportunity to recognize her residents and give them individual attention through things such as personal notes at move-in and decorating their doors on their birthdays. This is a great loss for Crosby Hall and the university community as a