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Police make new arrest in 2013 case of body found on church property

Therese Apel
The Clarion-Ledger
Felisha Spann, 41, was killed last August and left on a lot owned by a church

Jackson police have made another arrest in a homicide that is almost a year old now.

Haneefah Muhammad, 34, was arrested Tuesday on unrelated charges and questioned by investigators in the 2013 death of Felisha Spann, 41, of Jackson. She was later charged with murder in that case and booked into the city jail.

Spann was shot in the head and left in a field owned by the Greater Bethlehem Temple in the 300 block of Westhaven Boulevard on August 27, 2013. She had been there for several days and her body was badly decomposed when it was found by a church deacon walking the property.

Police have not released a motive in Spann's slaying.

Michael Buck, 48, was arrested in the death last year, but was released from jail recently, according to records.

Spann's 16-year-old daughter, Falisha Miller, was shot in the head at close range in the bathroom of the Metro Inn in 2010. Darion Givens, 18, was charged with murder, hours after the Jim Hill High School student was pronounced dead at Central Mississippi Medical Center.

Haneefah Muhammad was arrested in the 2013 slaying of Felisha Spann