Second Suspect Arrested in Murder of Store Clerk

By Josh Mitchell

Corinth Today News Editor

A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Corinth store clerk, Police Chief Ralph Dance told reporters Wednesday.

The suspect, Micah Bostic of Corinth, was picked up in Ripley by the Ripley Police Department, Dance said. Bostic is charged with capital murder.

Kris Ledlow, 43, of Corinth, was shot multiple times while working as a clerk at the Mapco station on U.S. Highway 72 East in Corinth on Monday morning at around 5:30, police say. She died at the hospital.

Bostic, 24, was transported to the Corinth Police Department last night.

He is on probation and was released from the state penitentiary in November for an armed robbery charge, Dance said.

The other suspect, 17-year-old Brooklyn Traylor, was arraigned Wednesday in Corinth Municipal Court and was ordered held without bond. He is being tried as an adult.

Traylor is allegedly the suspect who actually fired the handgun, Dance said.

Bostic was allegedly in the store with Traylor at the time of the crime, Dance added.

“We believe they went in to rob the individual,” said Dance, who said they both fled on foot.

Traylor is also charged with capital murder.

“The only weapon that we saw was Mr. Traylor’s,” the chief said, adding that surveillance video from the store was very helpful in this case.

“The investigators did an outstanding job,” Dance said. “I can’t say enough about what they’ve done putting this case together. We couldn’t have done it without the public. We couldn’t have done it without the surveillance video.”

Corinth attorney Clay Nails was appointed to serve as the public defender for Traylor, who is being held in the Alcorn County Detention Center.

Nails said he does not think this case will be ready to go to trial until after the first of next year.

Traylor is “looking potentially at losing his life, at receiving the death penalty,” Nails said.

The case is a “tragedy all the way around. It’s certainly tragic on the part of the decedent, and it is tragic on the part of the accused also because you have such a young man, and both families have sustained horrible losses here,” Nails said.