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Derrick Small Jr., 24, was killed in a mass shooting at the Marie Lyles Meadows Apartments in Crenshaw, Mississippi, on October 24, 2021. The attack also killed 19-year-old Deshun Anderson and wounded three others; investigators recovered nearly 100 spent shell casings from multiple firearms at the scene. Authorities described the shooting as targeted and retaliatory rather than random and connected it to another murder in Horn Lake, where Small Jr. had been awaiting trial on a 2020 murder charge.

A multi-agency manhunt named 21-year-old Quinton Cortez Taylor as the primary suspect. Taylor was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Memphis on December 8, 2021, and charged with two counts of felony murder and three counts of aggravated assault for the Crenshaw shooting.

Did anyone in the area have information about tensions or incidents linking Crenshaw, Horn Lake, Tate County or Panola County before October 24, 2021?