William Billy Earl Morris, 33, was found dead in his Brandon, Mississippi, home on Highway 80 on the morning of August 27, 2025. Deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department responded to a 911 call about an unresponsive man and determined Morris had sustained multiple gunshot wounds in what investigators described as a targeted attack rather than a random act of violence. An obituary records his birth on December 25, 1991.

Investigators traced a conflict to an earlier August incident when a truck belonging to 35-year-old Matthew Brian Kidd reportedly broke down on Morris’s property. Kidd returned days later to retrieve the vehicle, allegedly accused Morris of taking items from it, and made threats against Morris in the days that followed. Someone then forced the front door of Morris’s home and shot him multiple times.

Two days after Morris was found, Brandon police discovered another fatal shooting with a similar forced-entry pattern. Authorities identified a person of interest in connection with both killings, made an arrest, and recovered a firearm. Court filings were later entered in the cases. Does anyone have information about Morris, his movements in August 2025, or the earlier truck breakdown on his property?