Video: UPDATE: Bond Denied for Tupelo Murder Suspect

TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) -Bond is denied for a Tupelo man accused of murdering a cab driver this past weekend.

23 year old Leonta Gates made his initial appearance Tuesday afternoon in Lee County Circuit Court.

Gates was ordered held without bond. He is charged with capital murder in connection with the execution style shooting death of 55 year old Charlie Williams.

Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson says Gates asked Williams to drive him to Graham Drive. Johnson says Gates made Williams get out of the cab, robbed him and then shot him.

Williams body was found by motorcyclists.

The abandoned cab was found a few miles away.

“When someone commits a criminal act, especially where there is violence, or a weapon or something involved, these people don’t need to be let out, I don’t care what it cost to hold them, these people need to be incarcerated. You go to me, everybody that keeps hollering that it costs too much to incarcerate people, it costs too much to put people in jail, you need to attend Mr Williams funeral and explain that to their family. ”

Gates turned himself in to authorities early Monday morning at his residence in Haven Acres.