On the morning of Tuesday, February 13, 2024, police in Tchula, Mississippi, responded to a Middle Street residence and found 43-year-old Demarus Gray dead in a bedroom from a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators located a bullet shell casing underneath his body. Authorities say an argument between Gray and his brother escalated and resulted in the shooting; the brother was arrested at the scene but has not been publicly identified.

Gray was a member of the class of 2000 at S.V. Marshall High School and is survived by siblings and his grandmother. An official autopsy was pending as investigators continued to examine the circumstances of the altercation. Neighbors described shock that a family dispute in a well-known local family ended in such a fatality.

If anyone has information about what happened that morning or knew the Gray family, please come forward to help with the ongoing investigation.