On the night of June 25, 2019, a gathering at a home in Belzoni, Mississippi, ended in violence when a dispute during a bet on a Mortal Kombat game escalated. Thirty-one-year-old Telvin Washington was shot after an argument between Washington and Darry Daniels; the single gunshot wound proved fatal. Another attendee, Jonshun Yarbor, was struck in the arm by the same bullet and injured.

Authorities arrested Darry Daniels as he was driving away from the scene, reportedly headed toward Louisiana. Daniels was tried in Humphreys County Circuit Court and, after a two-day trial, the jury convicted him of manslaughter for Washington’s death. He was also convicted on three counts of aggravated assault and one count of shooting into an occupied dwelling and received a twenty-year sentence for the manslaughter conviction. An appeal affirmed the manslaughter conviction while reversing and remanding the aggravated assault convictions for a new trial due to legal insufficiency in the indictment.