On April 28, 2024, 46-year-old Lorenzo Walley Jr. was found dead outside a residence on Diamond Street in Moss Point, Mississippi after a 911 call at about 9:20 a.m. reported a man had been shot. He died of a fatal gunshot wound.

Witnesses at the scene identified a nearby resident, 31-year-old Douglas Bowens, as a person of interest and saw him enter his home shortly after the shooting before fleeing into the woods behind his house. A coordinated search by Moss Point Police, Pascagoula Police, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department and the local FBI office established a perimeter; Bowens later emerged from the woods at a neighbor’s front door and was taken into custody without incident.

Bowens was charged with Walley’s murder and transported to the Jackson County jail to await legal proceedings. Does anyone in Moss Point have information about what led to the shooting or saw activity in the neighborhood that morning?