Harvey Montrell Johnson Jr. was 15 when he was shot and killed in Columbus, Mississippi, in the early hours of April 24, 2022. Police found Johnson unconscious behind the wheel of a car in a ditch off Highway 182; the vehicle had multiple bullet holes and Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators traced the events back to the 100 block of Poplar Street, where an altercation and gunfire occurred. Johnson was shot on Poplar Street and then drove away before the car stopped in the ditch.

A passenger in Johnson’s car, 27-year-old Tommy Lee Flowers, was initially arrested on a weapons charge. Police say Flowers had been drinking and using drugs with Johnson and provided him a firearm to shoot into a residence on Poplar Street as retaliation for a prior incident in which Flowers had been shot. Johnson was killed by someone other than Flowers during that shooting. A week after the fatal incident, officers responded to another shooting at the same Poplar Street home that was investigated as possible retaliation.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember activity on Poplar Street around April 24, 2022?