The husband of a Gulf Coast native and former Miss Mississippi is being mourned after he was shot over the weekend in Alabama. According to court documents, the shooting happened in front of the couple’s two-year-old son.
In a news release, the Montgomery Police Department said Thomas Hand Jr., 37, was shot and killed on January 22 at a home on Texas Street in Montgomery.
Hand and his wife, D’Iberville native and former Miss Mississippi Christine Kozlowski Hand, were residents of Montgomery.
Police provided no details about the circumstances surrounding the shooting. No evidence was released as to what incited Walker to shoot Hand.
Police arrested 17-year-old Jerimiah Walker of Montgomery, the release stated. CNN has not been able to determine if Walker has legal representation.
Walker faces a charge of capital murder in the presence of a child under 14 and is currently in custody at the Montgomery County Detention Facility, the MPD statement said.
Kozlowski Hand also just recently announced that she is pregnant with the couple’s second child.
Kozlowski Hand said, “This is a very sad and trying time for my family and me right now.”
In a Facebook post made the day after Hand was killed, the former beauty queen said the funeral services for her husband would be held in Metairie, La., where Hand is originally from. She also said she would be moving her Montgomery-based health business back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to be closer to family.
