On the afternoon of September 22, 2025, Cynthia Tucker, a 59-year-old Black woman from Moss Point, Mississippi, was found shot and dead inside a residence in the Diamond Street area. A 70-year-old man named Alvin Myers was also found dead at the same scene; the Jackson County Coroner’s office’s initial findings indicated both had been shot. The Moss Point Police Department has classified the incident as a double homicide and opened an intensive investigation, but officials have not disclosed a motive or the nature of the relationship between Tucker and Myers.

Friends and family memorialized Tucker online and her obituary describes her as a mother of four and a cherished sister and friend. No arrests have been announced and the case remains open. If anyone who knew Cynthia, Alvin Myers, or who was in the Diamond Street area on September 22 has information, please share what is known with investigators.