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According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Melvin E Weathers, 28, of Booneville was working along County Road 1101 about 12:30 p.m. when he apparently stepped in the roadway and was struck by a 2002 Dodge Ram pickup driven by Chris Davis, 23, also of Booneville.
Weathers was taken Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville, where he died from his injuries. Davis was uninjured in the accident.
Weathers was a state inmate serving in Prentiss County through the Joint State-County Inmate Work Program.