On Monday afternoon, February 13, 2023, deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office responded to Toxie Davis Lane in Columbia, Mississippi, after reports of a disturbance. At about 1:30 p.m. they found a man with an apparent gunshot wound; he was identified as 34-year-old Stephen Morris Guy of Columbia. An autopsy was ordered by the Mississippi Crime Lab and the Sheriff’s Office opened a full investigation into the circumstances of his death.

Guy, known to family as PaPa, was born March 21, 1988, in Hattiesburg. He was a husband, a stepfather to five, and a grandfather. Loved ones remembered his interest in the outdoors — hunting for arrowheads and fishing at the Pearl River — and his abilities as a mechanic. No suspects or arrests have been announced and the cause of death was to be determined by autopsy.

If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon on Toxie Davis Lane, please contact the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.