Cornelius Johnson, 19, died on December 29, 2021, from gunshot wounds sustained in a November 19 shooting inside a car on Martin Luther King Drive in Yazoo County, Mississippi. Another person was wounded in the same incident and both were hospitalized after the shooting.

Authorities arrested 24-year-old William Perry following the November shooting. He was initially charged with two counts of aggravated assault; after Johnson died his charges were upgraded to include murder while one count of aggravated assault remained. The Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy reported Perry confessed to the shooting. Perry is being held at the Yazoo County Regional Correctional Facility. The sequence of events inside the vehicle that led to the shooting has not been described.

Did anyone in Yazoo County witness activity on Martin Luther King Drive that night or have information about what happened inside the car?