A double homicide on Christmas Eve left two young men dead in a Jackson home. On December 24, 2025, officers responded to a shooting in the 100 block of Lynn Avenue and found the bodies of 20-year-old George Smith Jr. and 22-year-old Rodney Gilbert Jr., each with multiple gunshot wounds that proved fatal. The killings were part of a sharp rise in violence in Jackson over the holiday, which included five homicides and several other shootings in a few days and prompted an increased police presence and public concern about safety.

Investigators began collecting evidence at the Lynn Avenue scene and seeking witnesses to reconstruct what happened. No arrests had been reported in the Smith and Gilbert deaths when the report was published; suspects were detained in a separate fatal shooting on Luter Lane the next morning. Does anyone in Jackson have information about activity on Lynn Avenue or the victims in the days before December 24, 2025?