Kenneth Wayne Mason, 52, was found shot to death on the side of Blaylock Road in Washington County on October 21, 2020. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and his maroon Chevy Trailblazer was missing; investigators determined the motive was robbery. Mason had returned to Greenville, Mississippi, in the fall of 2020 to care for his mother and to work on a book. He was a native of Greenville who had spent many years in New York City, where he worked as a maître d at the Waverly Inn and co-founded the Stop Abuse Campaign, a nonprofit aimed at preventing child abuse.

About a week after Mason’s body was discovered, law enforcement stopped his stolen SUV on Tampa Drive in Greenville and took three people into custody: 18-year-old Donnell Corbin, 20-year-old Devonte Jones, and 21-year-old Fredrick Pearson Jr. All three were initially charged with capital murder. Later developments in the prosecutions included Fredrick Pearson Jr. pleading guilty to second-degree murder and receiving a forty-year sentence, and 24-year-old Shamarlon Jones pleading guilty to accessory after the fact and related charges for actions taken after the shooting, including altering the vehicle and using Mason’s cards; Jones received a fifteen-year sentence. The case against Donnell Corbin remained pending.

Are there details about the evening of October 20–21, 2020, or about Mason’s movements in Greenville that anyone can add?