Kaitlynn Remembered

Kaitlynn Nicole Reiser, 12







OCEAN SPRINGS -- Hundreds of people from the St. Martin community and across South Mississippi attended funeral services for Kaitlynn Reiser on Sunday, Aug. 21.

Visitation and services were held at Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home on Porter Avenue.

Kaitlynn, 12, died Thursday night, Aug. 18, after a truck driven by a peewee football coach backed over her in the parking lot at the St. Martin Youth Complex. She attended St. Martin Middle School.

Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd has said that Kaitlynn's death was a horrible and tragic accident, according to television and newspaper outlets in South Mississippi.



Community Remembers 12-year-old Killed in Accident
Local 15 TV/August 20, 2011



Kaitlynn Nicole Reiser, had been a resident of Ocean Springs since 2006. She was a cheerleader at her middle school, and recently had been chosen as a homecoming maid. She also loved singing, according to family members.

St. Martin schools are among three community attendance centers that are part of the Jackson County School District



REMBERING KAITLYNN: St. Martin Girl Was a Friend, a Fighter


The Sun Herald/Saturday, August 20, 2011










View her obituary at Legacy and Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home, and obtain other information about the online memorial and funeral services.





Kaitlynn was born Dec. 22, 1998. She is survived by mother Regina Buckeridge; father Keith Reiser; stepfather Richard Martin; sisters Savannah Reiser, Shianne Martin, Shealeigh Martin; brothers Gaige Buckeridge and Ricky Martin Jr; grandparents Sharon Fritts, Wayne Brian, Kim Reiser, Fred Reiser, Valerie Lepine, Louis Lepine and Paul Martin Jr.; numerous aunts,uncles, cousins and countless friends.





Visitation for Kaitlynn's funeral began at 11 a.m. and ended when the funeral service started at 1 p.m. in the Bradford-O'Keefe chapel.





Interment followed at D'Iberville Memorial Park.

Girl, 12, Run Over, Killed at Softball Field

ST. MARTIN -- A Life Flight to South Alabama Medical Center could not save a 12-year-old girl who had been run over while at a St. Martin softball field Thursday night, according to the sheriff's department.

Sheriff Mike Byrd, according to The Mississippi Press, said the death was an apparent accident, which occurred when the girl unintentionally walked behind a vehicle driven by a family friend who was backing out of a parking spot.

"The driver just didn't see her and backed right over her," Byrd said.

Girl, 12, Hit by Vehicle at Softball Field Dies
The Mississippi Press/August 19, 2011

Young Girl Dies After Being Hit at St. Martin Softball Field
WDAM TV/Aug. 18, 2011

Jori Lirette: Disabled Child Decapitated

THIBODAUX, La. -- A memorial of balloons, stuffed animals, flowers, angel wings and other features stand promimently displayed in front of the house where a disabled Jori Lirette was killed Sunday, Aug. 14.

Law enforcement personnel have said that Jeremiah Lee Wright, 30, father of the boy, has confessed to the killing, which included bludgeoning Jori and dismembering his body before the remains were left in a garbage can in front of their 7th Street home. The body parts had been wrapped in plastic.

Jori's head had been left by the side of the road for his mother, Jesslyn Lirette, to see but police arrived first and removed it, according to media reports, which also said Wright was still near the home when a passing motorists saw the boy's head and called police.

Jori, 7 years old, suffered cerebral palsy, was wheelchair bound, and had a feeding tube and limited speech. He attended South Thibodaux Elementary School.

Read other stories to find out the reasons why and what is expected to happen to Wright, who has been charged with first-degree murder.

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Erin Marie Stechmann

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. -- Erin Marie Stechmann, 25, died Friday, July29, 2011, in Forrest County, though she was a lifelong resident of this city.


Erin was a member of Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church in Bay St. Louis. She will be sadly missed by family and friends.


She was preceded in death by her mother, Carolyn Phillips Stechmann.


Erin is survived by her father and stepmother, Billy and Dianne Stechman of Bay St. Louis; sisters Alissa Stechmann of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Emily Stechman of Bay St. Louis; brother Ryan Stechmann of Hattiesburg; grandmother Inger Phillips of Diamonhead; niece Victoria Morales of The Kiln community.


Visitation will be Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at 10 a.m. until noon at Our Lady of the Gulf Catholic Church.