Bobby Potts, 32, was killed in a shooting on the evening of August 20, 2026, in Jackson, Mississippi. Officers found a tan Ford Crown Victoria that had left Interstate 220 near the Highway 80 West off-ramp and stopped in a ditch; Potts was inside the vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Jackson Police Department has opened the case as the city’s 54th homicide of the year.

Potts had survived an earlier shooting in June 2016 near University Boulevard and Cherry Street, when he was wounded inside a Lexus SUV in an attack that also killed William Potts. Suspects were identified and charged in that 2016 case, but the circumstances of the August 20, 2026, shooting are not clear. Witnesses who saw the car drift off the interstate did not report seeing the shooting or anyone responsible, and no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced.

Anyone with information about what happened on Interstate 220 near the Highway 80 West off-ramp is asked to contact the Jackson Police Department or Crime Stoppers.