Strangling Murder Suspect Wrote Poetry & Blogged About Love

36-year-old James Elron Mings is accused of fatally strangling a man at the last week. He has been charged with murder and is being held without bail at the Yolo County Jail. He pleaded not guilty on Thursday. 

He also writes poetry, keeps a personal blog and writes a relationship column for Examiner.com. 

The man who was killed was Kevin Gerard Seery, 42. He died of asphyxia due to neck compression and gagging. A cloth material was found in his throat, according to the Davis Enterprise. Mings was one of two people to call in and report the death to police.

Writer, Poet, Blogger

In the bio of his blog, Mings calls himself a “philosophically minded jack-of-all trades.” He was working on getting an agent to turn his “Journal of a Journey of a Thousand Miles” into a book.

He was a freelance writer who covered relationships for Examiner.com and also worked as a cashier at the . He said he was getting his “life on track for the first time in over 2 years!”

His writings and his bio focus heavily on elements of love and faith. He consistently acknowledges a checkered past, but does not dive into specifics. Instead, he expresses a desire to look forward and “appreciate that which I have, and not focus too much on what I have lost.”

He mentions time spend in the military, but only acknowledges two months of basic training and one month of advanced individual training. He was married at one point, but divorced.  

The bulk of his writing focuses on love, prayer and spirituality, but he does not seem to latch onto a specific faith:

If I’ve learned nothing else over the course of the last 2 years of my Life, it is that there is NOTHING more important than Life, and its interconnected partner, Love! 

His blog can be found here. Much of the information in this artcile comes form his bio and a post called “Love… so much more than a word!” Here is another called “A Wordsmight’s Plight: What Dreams May Become."

His Examiner.com articles about relationships can be found here.

Like Davis Patch on Facebook to follow the case as it moves forward. Mings is expected to make a plea this week. We have a call out to the DA's office.