Overview
- Authorities identified the victims as 32-year-old Shardee McGill and her 3-year-old daughter, Janae.
- Investigators said both died by drowning in the Tombigbee River near Epes, Alabama.
- The child’s death was ruled a homicide and the mother’s death a suicide, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
- Johnathan McGill reported his wife and daughter missing from their Northeast Jackson home in late September.
- Shardee McGill’s 2017 Chevrolet Equinox was found near the river during a multi-agency search that included Jackson police, ALEA, the FBI and Mississippi investigators, and Johnathan McGill was detained for questioning in Alabama and later released.