On the evening of August 19, 2022, 22-year-old LaCurtis Hackett was shot multiple times inside a music studio on Mill Creek Road in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi after two assailants kicked in the door. Hackett was taken to King’s Daughters Medical Center but died of his injuries; authorities described the shooting as a targeted killing.

Within 48 hours, two suspects were in custody. Dantez J. Frith, 22, of Pike County was arrested the day after the shooting, and 19-year-old Camron Cardell Stewart of Magnolia turned himself in the next day. Both were charged with first-degree murder and denied bond at their initial appearance on August 23.

Three weeks before Hackett’s death, a Pike County grand jury had declined to indict him in the 2020 shooting death of Austin Wanzo. What can anyone who was at the studio or in the area that night add to the timeline or the identities of those involved?