A Bay Springs woman was killed in Oxford when a vehicle she was in rolled over.
According to the Oxford Police Department, at 1:16 a.m. Sunday, a call came in to 911 in regard to a single-vehicle rollover on Gertrude Ford Boulevard by Old Taylor Road.
One of the occupants, Mayanita Alridge, 20, of Bay Springs, was pronounced dead at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi.
Another occupant in the vehicle was transported to Baptist Memorial and is in stable condition.
Alridge was a junior Biology major at Rust College and a member of the Theta Upsilon Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
During her time at Rust College, she was a member of the softball team, served to feed the homeless and had been a member of the Lady Blues Majorettes, according to a post on Rust College’s Facebook page.
The crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information should call OPD at 662-232-2400.
