Christopher Lee, 28, was killed in an ambush-style shooting inside a Jasco gas station on West Woodrow Wilson Avenue in Jackson, Mississippi on February 7, 2021. Lee returned fire and struck one of the attackers, 33-year-old Justin Partee, who was later taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center and died of his wounds.

Police recovered two firearms and some drugs at the scene. Investigators characterized the attack as premeditated; two men, both 25, Aaron Hudson and Christopher Barber, were arrested and charged with murder. A local city councilman said Lee, known in the neighborhood as Buddy, had been known to him since childhood and that Lee’s mother had also been killed by gun violence years earlier.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at the gas station or has information about the altercation that led up to it, please come forward.