On the morning of June 22, 2025, 23-year-old Karah Perkins-Potter was shot and killed at a gas station on Northside Drive in Jackson, Mississippi. She had been with friends when an argument between one friend and that friend’s boyfriend, Phillip Bullock, turned confrontational. Perkins-Potter intervened to protect her friend; according to an off-duty officer who witnessed the incident, both Perkins-Potter and Bullock displayed firearms, Perkins-Potter fired a shot into the air, and Bullock then allegedly shot her in the head before fleeing.

Capitol Police told the family that surveillance footage showed Bullock grabbing Perkins-Potter’s hand before producing a weapon and firing. Bullock was later arrested, but the initial charges filed were for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, not for Perkins-Potter’s death; he was released on bail days later. Bullock’s past conviction includes a 2017 guilty plea for aggravated assault and home invasion with a seven-year sentence. The investigation is ongoing and the case is pending presentation to a grand jury.

Perkins-Potter was the granddaughter of civil rights activist Dr. John Perkins. Her family has protested the early charges and release, and they have established The Sunshine Scholarship in her memory. Does anyone have information about the incident or the moments leading up to it that could help the investigation?