A parking-lot dispute in Jackson, Mississippi, turned deadly on January 24, 2021. Twenty-five-year-old Kiana Singleton, a mother, was a passenger in a vehicle that left a Zaxby’s parking lot near the M-Bar Grill and was followed onto Interstate 220. During the chase several shots were fired into the car; the vehicle continued to South Jackson, where the driver discovered Kiana had been struck and was unresponsive.

Jackson police identified and arrested two people in connection with the attack. Marcus Guice, 44, and Augena Funches, 24, were charged with murder and related drive-by shooting offenses; Funches also faced a count of possession of stolen property. Separate federal proceedings later produced an unrelated sentence for Guice in May 2025, and in December 2024 Funches pleaded guilty to a reduced manslaughter charge in a different 2019 death and received a 20-year term, while the capital murder charge in Singleton’s killing remained pending as of late 2024.

Who knew Kiana, where she lived or spent time, or saw activity around the Zaxby’s parking lot that night?