On the evening of Saturday, October 14, 2023, 25-year-old Christopher Avazier Goolsby was shot multiple times around 6:00 p.m. on O’Ferrell Avenue near West Capitol Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Despite attempts to render aid, he was pronounced dead at the scene. Family and friends remembered him as a good father and husband.

The Jackson Police Department opened an investigation and asked the public for information, providing contact details for the department and Crime Stoppers. Investigators arrested 53-year-old Darrell Stewart and charged him with Goolsby’s murder, a major development in the case and the start of the judicial process.

If anyone has information about what happened on O’Ferrell Avenue that evening, contact the Jackson Police Department or Crime Stoppers.