A 7-year-old girl who is one of the victims of a mass shooting in Clay County was the intended victim of sexual assault by the man accused of killing her and five adults.
Daricka Moore, 24, pleaded not guilty Monday to three counts of capital murder, three counts of first-degree murder and other charges in the Friday shootings, local TV stations reported. He has been held at the Clay County jail since the weekend and was denied bond. A judge also ordered a mental health evaluation.
Before the court hearing, family members identified the girl as Mikiylia Guines, who is Moore’s second cousin. He is also accused of killing three other family members.
During a Saturday press conference, Clay County Sheriff Eddie Scott said Moore tried to sexually assault someone at the address where the girl was killed, but did not specify who. One of the court affidavits lists Mikiylia as the victim of Moore’s attempted sexual assault. The sheriff was not immediately available for comment Monday.
The capital murder charges are for the deaths of the 7-year-old, Barry Bradley and Samuel Bradley. Barry Bradley was a pastor of Apostolic Church of The Lord Jesus in Cedarbluff, which is located near the home where the men died.
In addition to murder and attempted sexual battery charges, Moore is charged with attempted murder of a child, burglary and two counts of taking a motor vehicle.
This photo provided by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office shows Daricka M. Moore at the Clay County jail in West Point, Miss., on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. Credit: Clay County Sheriff's Office via AP)A motive for the shootings was not immediately known.
Lashanna Guines, the girl’s mother, told WTVA-TV she saw her child die in front of her and the girl’s siblings. She is left to wonder if she could have done more to help.
“And that’s weighing heavy on my heart, because, you know, it may have been more, what if I did this, and what if I did that?” Guines said. “It would have been, you know, a better outcome, but I just don’t know. I tried. I tried.”
Community members have come together to support families of the shooting victims.
The United Way of the Golden Triangle Region established a Family Assistance Fund, and there is a GoFundMe to help Guines, Mikiylia’s mother. As of Monday, over $10,000 had been raised.
“Let’s rally as a community of families to support them through the loss of her baby girl,” Rene Guines-McMillian, who organized the fundraiser, wrote on the GoFundMe page. Guines-McMillian was not immediately available for comment Monday.
Scott, the sheriff, previously said his department had not dealt with Moore or responded to calls at the locations where the six people were killed.
Over the weekend, District Attorney Scott Colom said his office will consider the death penalty.
Friday evening, Moore allegedly shot his father Glenn Moore, 67; uncle Willie Guines, 55; and his brother Quinten Moore, 33, in the head at a home on David Hill Road, according to law enforcement. It’s the same home that is listed as Moore’s home address in court records.
Moore took a Ford F150 belonging to his brother and drove it to the second scene on Blake Road where he broke into the house and tried to sexually assault the 7-year-old, according to authorities. He shot the girl in the head and tried to kill another child, according to the sheriff.
From there, Moore allegedly went to a home on Siloam-Griffith Road, where investigators found the truck he had taken hidden behind the house. There, they found the bodies of Barry Bradley and Samuel Bradley, who also had been shot in the head, Scott said.
Moore was arrested at a safety checkpoint about a half a mile from the second crime scene, Scott said.
This was the largest mass shooting in Mississippi since eight people were shot and killed in and near Brookhaven in 2017. Willie Godbolt, who was sentenced to death, shot his estranged wife and several of her family members and a Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy.
Simeon Gates contributed reporting.
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