A routine traffic stop at a Valero on Cooper Road in Jackson, Mississippi, on the morning of May 9, 2018, escalated into a deadly officer-involved shooting. Police stopped a white SUV driven by 30-year-old Elliot Reed after observing erratic driving. Surveillance footage shows an officer approaching the vehicle and noticing several weapons inside. After Elliot exited the SUV a struggle began between him and the officer and moved away from the vehicle.

During that struggle, 26-year-old Chauncey Reed, the passenger, emerged with a firearm and allegedly aimed it at his brother and the officer. The officer took cover behind his patrol car and returned fire; Elliot Reed was critically injured, taken to a hospital, and later died. Chauncey Reed was arrested at the scene, briefly and mistakenly released from the Hinds County jail, then recaptured. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called to handle the probe.

The case remains an active homicide investigation; readers who were at the Valero that morning or who have information about the encounter are asked to come forward.