Cedric Mosley was 45 and lived in Jackson, Mississippi. On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2020, a dispute with 33-year-old Walter Hawkins that reportedly began earlier in the week ended with both men shot and pronounced dead at the scene on Hair Street near Valley Street and Highway 80. Police and witnesses said Hawkins had been accused days earlier of robbing and assaulting Mosley; that confrontation carried over into the late-night encounter when Mosley approached a vehicle where Hawkins sat with two women, a verbal argument escalated, Mosley brandished a gun, and both men opened fire.

Mosley’s longtime girlfriend, Kizzie Coleman, said the couple had been together for a decade and described the family’s grief, including her stepson’s nightly crying. She later organized a balloon release on what would have been Mosley’s 46th birthday and used the memorial to call for an end to gun violence in the city. No arrests, charges, trials, or convictions linked specifically to the Hair Street shooting are described in the reports. Does anyone have information about the events that led up to the confrontation or about Mosley’s life in Jackson?