William Waltman, 52, was killed on April 27, 2022, in a carjacking in Gulfport, Mississippi. A contract employee with the city of Gulfport working as a lead electrician, he was reportedly showing a new employee the ropes when he was carjacked near Magnolia Avenue and Rio Grande Street. During the carjacking the suspect shot Waltman multiple times; Waltman was taken to a local hospital and died during surgery.

The violence that day began earlier in nearby Biloxi, where the suspect, identified as 32-year-old Jeremy Reynolds, shot and killed three people at the Broadway Inn Express: owner Mohammad Moeini, 51, and employees Laura Lehman, 61, and Chad Green, 55. Reynolds then stole a vehicle, drove to Gulfport, and carjacked Waltman’s city work truck. After abandoning the truck, Reynolds barricaded himself in a convenience store, set a mattress on fire, and was later found dead of smoke inhalation; a handgun and a rifle were recovered and no apparent trauma was reported on his body.

Waltman’s family remembers him as a loving husband, father of two, grandfather of six, with a passion for music and known as a jack of all trades. Does anyone have information about Waltman’s final movements that afternoon or saw anything near Magnolia Avenue and Rio Grande Street?