Charles Ray Brooks Jr, 23, known as C.J., was found fatally shot in the head around midnight on August 16, 2023, in the 1200 block of Wright Road in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office identified 17-year-old Xavier Weddington as the person who fired the weapon that killed Brooks. Weddington was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder; he appeared in Warren County Justice Court where bond was set at $150,000. Because a firearm was involved, he is being prosecuted as an adult. Investigators have described the motive and whether the shooting was intentional or the result of criminal recklessness as still under investigation, and they have not ruled out additional arrests.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Wright Road or has information about what led to Brooks’s death, please share what is known with the Warren County Sheriff’s Office.