On the evening of February 5, 2024, 20-year-old Andra Cotton was fatally shot at a residence on Avenue D in McComb, Mississippi. Cotton died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds; an 18-year-old, Brandon Celestine, was also wounded in the hand. Two 17-year-old suspects were identified in the shooting: Ladarius Magee and Bryson Brumfield. Magee was taken into custody in February. Brumfield remained at large until late March, when officers located the vehicle he was in and captured him after an approximately one-hour foot pursuit through wooded terrain.

At the time of Cotton’s killing, Brumfield was reportedly out on bond on an earlier accessory-after-the-fact charge tied to a Gulfport homicide. The house on Avenue D had been the scene of a police standoff a week earlier after another shooting that led to the arrest of Brenton Celestine, the twin brother of the wounded Brandon. In the weeks after Cotton’s death, Cotton’s girlfriend was later found shot to death in a separate incident. Anyone with information about the February 5 shooting or related events is asked to come forward.