On the afternoon of July 7, 2021, a verbal dispute in the parking lot of a restaurant on Courthouse Road in Gulfport, Mississippi, escalated into deadly gunfire. Twenty-six-year-old Raheem Omar Ramsey was leaving in his vehicle when someone opened fire with what police described as an assault rifle. Ramsey was struck multiple times and died at the scene inside his car. He was a male and an alumnus of Gulfport High School.

Gulfport police responded to reports of shots fired at about 1:30 p.m. and quickly identified a suspect. Eighteen-year-old Terrence Cortney Dwight Hayes Jr. was arrested and initially charged with first-degree murder; bond was set at $2 million. The case later resolved when Hayes pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and, in April 2024, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for Ramsey’s death.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or saw Ramsey and the other person arguing in that parking lot that day, please share what you remember.