South Mississippi man guilty of ‘vicious attack’ that lasted hours before he shot woman

A Moss Point man who beat a woman for hours before shooting her in the head will spend 18 years in prison after he was convicted for aggravated domestic violence, the District Attorney’s office said.

Shamon Jarwon Perryman, 34, of Moss Point was convicted and sentenced on Tuesday. Judge Kathy King Jackson sentenced Perryman to 20 years -- the maximum sentence -- with 18 years in prison and two on post-release supervision.

The conviction stemmed from a December 2018 incident, the District Attorney’s office said in a news release.

District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath said the woman miraculously survived despite suffering hours of abuse. She said Perryman put cigarettes out on the woman’s body, “poured bleach and toilet water in her hair, dragged her, terrorized her with two guns, threw beer bottles at her and eventually shot her in the head.”

“It is a miracle she survived this vicious attack,” McIlrath said in the news release.

Before the sentencing, the woman spoke in court “with bullet fragments still lodged in her brain,” McIlrath said.

Perryman admitted to the crime but said he had been too intoxicated to remember the details, the release said.

The woman, McIlrath said, “is not a victim, she is a survivor.”

McIlrath said victims of domestic violence should know they “are not trapped in abuse.” She directed victims to the Gulf Coast Center for Non-Violence, which runs shelters in Harrison and Jackson counties.

If you or a loved one are a victim of domestic violence in South Mississippi, reach out to the Gulf Coast Center for Nonviolence 24/7 Crisis Line (800-800-1396), Harrison County (228-435-1968), Jackson County (228-762-8267), Hancock County (228-252-1999) or Northcutt Legal Clinic (228-864-7144).