A family reunion at the Anderson Masonic Lodge in Canton, Mississippi, ended in tragedy on June 25, 2023, when 33-year-old Jordan Maurice Deere was fatally shot during a mass shooting. The gathering was the final day of a weekend-long reunion when a man identified as 32-year-old George Alton Smith entered the hall and began firing indiscriminately. Witnesses said Smith reloaded multiple times; many attendees escaped by fleeing to a nearby residential neighborhood.

Police from the Canton Police Department arrived to find multiple gunshot victims. Three other people—Daryl Dortch, Densie Page, and James Williams—were wounded. Dortch was airlifted for treatment and later died from complications on February 14, 2024. Officers arrested Smith as he attempted to leave in his vehicle; shell casings at the scene matched the gun and ammunition found in his truck. The motive remains unknown to investigators and the families.

Did anyone at the reunion or in the Canton area see anything that could help fill in the gaps about why this attack happened?