Rhakim Jamal Armondo James was 28 when he was found dead in the road on Franklin Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on May 24, 2020. Hattiesburg Police responded that day and opened an investigation into his death.

Within a week investigators arrested two people in connection with the case. Laquon Akeem Fluker was charged with murder; Veenesha Snow was charged with accessory after the fact to murder and hindering prosecution. Fluker’s record listed prior convictions for robbery, arson, and conspiracy to introduce contraband into a correctional facility. While awaiting trial on the murder charge, Fluker was accused in March 2021 of conspiring with other inmates to assault a fellow prisoner and was later convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault; a judge sentenced him as a violent habitual offender to life without parole for that conviction, and the sentence was appealed with the state Supreme Court ordering a new hearing in September 2024.

A week after James’s death, TeDarron Price, who had been questioned and released as part of the homicide inquiry, was fatally shot. James’s brother, Kedrick Tevon Lee, was arrested, tried, and convicted of first-degree murder in Price’s death and sentenced to life in prison.

Did anyone who knew Rhakim or his movements in Hattiesburg in May 2020 see or hear anything that could clarify what happened?