In the early morning hours of July 6, 2023, 34-year-old Tiarra Pinkston was shot and killed in her Newton, Mississippi, apartment on Violet Street. Multiple gunshots were fired into the home at about 4 a.m.; at least one bullet fatally struck Pinkston while two children, ages 5 and 13, who were in the residence at the time, were unharmed. She was a mother to three children and remembered by family and friends as a loving person who enjoyed helping others.

The Newton County Sheriff’s Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigations worked the case and identified four people who were arrested in connection with the shooting: 22-year-old Azayvian Russell, 24-year-old Isaiah West, 26-year-old Antonio Skinner, and 17-year-old J’marion Sherbal. All four were charged with shooting into an occupied dwelling and capital murder. Investigators also linked Azayvian Russell as a person of interest in a separate June 20, 2023 shooting at a Marathon gas station in Newton.

What information might help clarify motive or sequence in the July 6 attack?