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Derrick Coleman, 48, was shot dead at about 2:50–2:51 p.m. on July 21, 2024, in the parking lot of a Shell station at McDowell Road and Suncrest Drive in Jackson, Mississippi. He was standing near an RV that police later said belonged to him and talking with station owner Jasvir Singh when a dark sedan, described as a black Honda Accord with tinted windows, pulled onto the lot. Investigators say the rear passenger leaned out and opened fire; Coleman and Singh were mortally wounded and four others were seriously but non-fatally injured. Numerous shell casings and many evidence markers were left across the asphalt.

Coleman was the estranged husband of Latasha Crump-Coleman, a corrections officer who disappeared in July 2023 after reporting threats and obtaining a protective order. Court records show Coleman had been convicted in 2022 for violating that no-contact order and had been released from jail about three weeks before the shooting. Family members have long suspected he knew more about Latasha’s disappearance, though the police chief said investigators had found no evidence linking the homicide to that missing-person case. Detectives have focused on identifying the dark Honda and its four occupants from surveillance video, but as of the latest reports no suspects had been identified and no arrests announced.

Does anyone who was in that area that afternoon or who recognizes the vehicle or occupants on surveillance know anything that could help investigators?