On the morning of Sunday, November 10, 2019, a house party on R T Lake Road in Mendenhall, Mississippi, ended in violence when 44-year-old Willie G. Davis Jr left after a verbal altercation. He walked to a vehicle at the intersection of Emmitt Brown and R T Lake Road and, as he and companions were getting into the vehicle, they were confronted by several people. Davis was severely beaten and then shot by one of the men; family members took him to a local hospital, where he later died.

The Simpson County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation that focused on two brothers, Reuben Lyrell Mayes and R'Mand Lashard Smoove Mayes, and Reuben’s wife, Amanda Rochelle Warren. With assistance from the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, officers arrested Reuben Lyrell Mayes and Amanda Rochelle Warren on November 19, 2019, and later that night arrested R'Mand Lashard Mayes. The Mayes brothers were charged with first-degree murder and Amanda Rochelle Warren was charged with hindering prosecution or apprehension; the investigation continued.

If anyone at the party or nearby that night has information about the confrontation or the people involved, please come forward.