The southern Jackson community lost 34-year-old Josiah Lee Kelly after he was shot multiple times on the night of March 13, 2024. The shooting occurred in the parking lot of a shopping center on West McDowell Road near Suncrest Drive. He was taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he later died from his injuries.

Jackson Police identified and arrested a 19-year-old man, Dillon Duckworth, and charged him with murder; authorities have not released a motive. Kelly was born March 26, 1987, in Barstow, California, to Jimmy Kelly and Diane Glen Kelly and was living in Jackson at the time of his death. A funeral service was held April 13, 2024, at St. Paul Church of God in Christ, with burial at Autumn Woods Cemetery.

If anyone has information about the shooting or remembers seeing anything in that shopping center parking lot on March 13, please share what you know.