Jamie Hoard was a 30-year-old Black man living in Jackson, Mississippi, who was shot and killed around midnight on June 21, 2023. Officers found him in the 200 block of Woodrow Wilson near Bailey Avenue after an altercation with another man, identified in reports as Jimal Tarvin. Hoard had a prior criminal history; in 2018 he was charged with capital murder and aggravated assault in a deadly home invasion and was reported injured in a fight while his case was pending at the Raymond Detention Center.

Detectives later linked Hoard’s killing to two other 2023 homicides: the June 22 shooting of 44-year-old Nicole Garrett, said to have occurred after the suspect believed she was following him, and the September killing of 22-year-old Travis Burrell, where surveillance showed a man exiting a green Dodge Challenger. Police continued searching for the suspect through 2023.

On the evening of May 10, 2024, Jackson police located and arrested 27-year-old Jimal Tarvin; he was charged with three counts of homicide in the deaths of Hoard, Garrett and Burrell and had an outstanding warrant for shooting into an occupied vehicle. The investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about Hoard or these incidents, please contact Crime Stoppers at 601-355-8477.