Yatcey Estell was a 36-year-old man from Jackson, Mississippi, who was killed on July 26, 2020, after going to the Sunset Plaza Apartments on Sunset Drive to pick up his child. He arrived amid a heated dispute among neighbors, and an argument in the complex’s parking area escalated into gunfire. Estell, described as an uninvolved bystander, was struck and taken from the 3500 block of Sunset Drive to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he died of his injuries.

Detectives treated the case as a homicide and focused on Robert Thomas as the person believed to have fired the fatal shots. Thomas was located and arrested by a U.S. Marshals Task Force and charged with murder and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

Estell was laid to rest at Autumn Woods Cemetery in Jackson.