Anthony Slay, a 20-year-old man from Hazlehurst, Mississippi, was fatally shot on the night of June 22, 2025. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. on Nelson Drive and also wounded a 16-year-old; both victims were taken to a local hospital where Slay later died. As of initial reports, no arrests had been announced and the investigation was ongoing.

Records note a complicated legal history for Slay. In June 2022 Hazlehurst police had identified him as a suspect in the earlier fatal shooting of Malik Washington, who was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in his vehicle between March 5 and March 6, 2022.

Did anyone in Hazlehurst see activity on or near Nelson Drive around 10:30 p.m. that night or have information about either shooting?