On the evening of May 9, 2021, gunfire in the 800 block of 8th Street NW in Cairo, Georgia, left 56-year-old Derrick Lamar Herring dead. He was found deceased near the road and the Cairo Police Department opened a homicide investigation with assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Investigators worked the case for more than a year before the first arrest on October 6, 2022, when 18-year-old Christopher Tyreq James of Cairo was charged with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and booked into the Grady County Jail. A subsequent arrest came on September 27, 2023, when Joshua Jones, who was a juvenile at the time of the shooting, was arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault and was to be charged as an adult.

The South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office is prosecuting the case. Does anyone in Cairo remember seeing or hearing anything in that area on the night of May 9, 2021?