Dad accused of killing kids headed to S. Carolina

RALEIGH, Miss. (AP) — The man accused of killing his five young children and dumping their bodies off a rural Alabama road was being extradited today to South Carolina to face murder charges.

Before 8 a.m. Central time today, Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, was loaded into an unmarked SUV and was leaving Mississippi for South Carolina. He had been held in Smith County since his arrest Saturday at a traffic checkpoint and eventually led authorities to the children’s bodies.

Officials in Lexington, South Carolina, have said he will face five murder charges in the deaths of his five children, ages 8, 7, 6, 2 and 1.

Today, Jones wore a striped jail uniform and protective vest as he was escorted into the SUV. Officials also loaded up boxes of evidence for the trip to South Carolina.

“He’s in the hands of South Carolina authorities at this time,” Smith County Sheriff Charlie Crumpton said.