Trellis Burnett was 30 when he was shot to death outside his mother’s house at 307 Keller Street in Bay St. Louis on a late October night in 2020. He had just returned from the airport and parked in front of the home at about 11:21 p.m. when witnesses heard a burst of gunfire that struck the occupied vehicle. Burnett was found gravely wounded, taken to a local hospital, and died soon after; some records list his death date as October 22, 2020, others as October 23, 2020.

His mother, Sharon Dorsey, said she found him with a fatal head wound. Dorsey told reporters he had served eight years in prison for a 2010 robbery but was trying to rebuild his life by the fall of 2020. She wondered whether the shooting might be connected to an earlier Gulfport killing of Delfred Lewis, in which Tony Alexander Williams was later arrested, though authorities have not publicly confirmed any link.

The Bay St. Louis Police Department, the FBI, and Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers have all been involved in the investigation, which remains unsolved with no suspect publicly named. Did anyone in the Bay St. Louis area see or hear anything that night or know more about Burnett’s movements just before he arrived home?