On the evening of Sunday, October 24, 2021, a mass shooting at the Marie Lyles Meadows Apartments on Jones Street in Crenshaw, Mississippi, left two young men dead and three others critically wounded. Among the deceased was 19-year-old Deshun Anderson, a resident of Crenshaw.

Investigators at the scene counted between 60 and 100 spent shell casings from multiple firearms.Derrick Smalls Jr., 24, was the other fatality. Authorities described the attack as targeted rather than random and said it appeared linked to earlier violence in the region; Smalls had been awaiting trial on a murder charge from Horn Lake, Mississippi, and the shooting was reported as likely retaliatory.A multi-agency investigation by the Quitman County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation led to the identification of a suspect, 21-year-old Quenten Cortez Taylor.

He was arrested in Memphis in early December 2021 and charged with two counts of felony murder and three counts of aggravated assault.