Tony Tommie Owens, a male resident of Houston, Mississippi, was shot and killed along Airport Road on December 15, 2022. The shooting took place on the edge of the small Chickasaw County town; first responders sealed off the scene as officers documented evidence. Owens is listed in national gun-homicide records as the single victim in that incident.

Investigators identified and arrested an adult woman named Marika Gates in connection with the shooting. Local coverage indicates the case was presented to a Chickasaw County grand jury, which returned an indictment charging a woman with second-degree murder in connection with Owens’s death. A memorial page created on a national gun-violence remembrance site records Owens’s name, date, and place of death and shows friends and family lighting virtual candles.

Airport Road still marks the location where an ordinary afternoon became a fatal shooting. If anyone knew Tony Owens or witnessed what happened that day, please share what can help the investigation or the family.