Brittany Jones, 31 and pregnant, was killed during a domestic disturbance in Meridian, Mississippi on June 9, 2022. A responding Meridian police officer, Kennis Croom, was also shot and killed at the scene. Jones worked as a certified nursing assistant and supported her family by holding multiple jobs; she is remembered for a happy attitude and for making those around her laugh.

Police identified Jones’s fiancé, 31-year-old Dante Bender, a former police officer, as the suspect. He fled the scene and was the subject of a manhunt; authorities arrested him the next day at a gas station in Ackerman, Mississippi, about 80 miles from Meridian. Bender was charged with capital murder in the officer’s death and first-degree murder in Jones’s death.

What details about the incident or the people involved might help explain how this unfolded, and does anyone have information that could still be relevant to the investigation?