In the winter of 2019 in Columbus, Mississippi, 18-year-old Xavier Traveon Dora was fatally shot inside an abandoned house on the afternoon of December 19 near 17th Street and Fifth Avenue South. Investigators said at least five people were present when a dispute escalated into gunfire. Dora was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and died that night during surgery. Another person at the scene suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was not publicly identified.

Arrests followed quickly. Within a day Columbus police, assisted by West Point officers, arrested 18-year-old Shaquavus Lashun White of West Point and charged him with manslaughter; he was held at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center. In early January 2020 a second person, 19-year-old Damorio Sanchez Price-Ewing of West Point, was arrested in Monroe County on a charge of accessory after the fact and also booked into Lowndes County custody. The precise actions that led to Price-Ewing’s charge were not publicly detailed.

Does anyone have information about what happened at that abandoned house or about the people who were there?