An argument during a neighborhood basketball game in Yazoo City, Mississippi, turned deadly on the evening of Friday, March 28, 2025. Players and spectators were gathered in the 300 block of Chapman Street when a dispute over the game escalated and shots were fired. Dontavious Weekly, 29, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Yazoo County Coroner. A second person was wounded and taken to a local hospital with injuries described as non-life-threatening.

Yazoo City police identified a suspect in the days after the shooting and later say that Devarius Taylor surrendered to authorities and was charged with murder and aggravated assault. Bond was set at $1 million. Anyone who was at the game or has information about what led to the argument or the shooting is asked to come forward.