Raven Coleman was an 18-year-old mother who was fatally shot in Jackson, Mississippi, on the afternoon of January 13, 2022. She was a passenger in a white Honda driven by her mother; a two-year-old son sat in the backseat and was unharmed. The family had stopped at a T-Mobile store in the Ellis Avenue Plaza when a person in another vehicle leaned out with an assault rifle and opened fire. The Honda was riddled with bullets, the storefront glass shattered, and Coleman was killed. Her mother was wounded in the leg and survived.

Police said witnesses described a Black male wearing a mask firing the weapon. Officers later found an abandoned suspect vehicle on Combs Avenue; people who had been seen with it reportedly fled, one carrying an assault rifle and another a handgun, but a search turned up no arrests that day. In April 2022 investigators named 18-year-old Latimius Washington as a suspect and he was arrested in May on murder and related charges; he was released after police said they no longer had enough information to prosecute. In June 2024 Coleman’s family publicly appealed for tips, saying her young son misses his mother every day.

Who has information about that afternoon in Ellis Avenue Plaza that could help bring Raven’s family some answers?