3 charged in fatal Sunday shooting

MARIANNA  —  A man is dead and three people were behind bars Sunday after a drug deal turned into an ambush, according to the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

Patrick Register and Travis Marvin Locke, both of Sneads, were shot early Sunday morning on Dellwood Cypress Road, where they expected to purchase pseudoephedrine pills used to cook methamphetamine. The sheriff's office said Locke had arraigned the deal with Dayeisha Curry of Marianna, but Curry, Christopher Laster and Jordan Davis instead ambushed Locke and Register and attempted to rob them.

After they were shot, Register and Locke went to Grand Ridge for help. Locke was treated and released from Jackson Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, but Register was rushed by helicopter to Bay Medical Center, where he died.

JCSO investigators identified Curry as a suspect and spotted her car driving through Marianna. Davis and Laster were passengers in her car when police stopped her.

Evidence at the scene and statements from the three suspects implicated them in Register's slaying, and all three were arrested.

Curry and Laster were charged with principle in the first degree to homicide and principle in the first degree to attempted homicide. Davis faces an open count of murder and a count of attempted murder.