On the night of August 31, 2020, 27-year-old Evan Basil Brown was fatally shot outside the Pagoda Village Apartments on North Jefferson Street in Jackson, Mississippi. Brown was standing with another man, Robert Hunt, when two men reportedly approached and multiple shots were fired. Brown was struck several times and died at the scene; Hunt suffered a gunshot wound to the back and survived. The shooting was counted as the city’s 78th homicide that year.

Brown was born March 31, 1993, in Flowood, Mississippi. He was a husband and father of two children, Silas and Lorelei, worked in the restaurant industry, and enjoyed playing guitar and writing computer code. The Jackson Police Department arrested 36-year-old Beau Hall and charged him with murder and aggravated assault in connection with Brown’s death and Hunt’s injury; authorities have not publicly disclosed a motive.

Did anyone in Jackson know Brown, Hunt, or the Pagoda Village Apartments and have information that could help clarify what happened that night?