Eighteen-year-old Joshua Bullock was killed by gunfire while standing at the corner of Beech and Sedgewick streets in McComb, Mississippi, on a Saturday night. The shooting also grazed a 15-year-old nearby; that teenager did not require medical treatment. Bullock was taken to Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead on January 13, 2024.

The McComb Police Department opened an investigation after the shooting. Initially no suspects were identified, but nearly two weeks later a 15-year-old, Jaylen Patterson, was arrested and charged with Bullock’s murder and held on a $1 million bond. This was the second fatal shooting in McComb within a short span that January.

If anyone was near Beech and Sedgewick that night or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.