Joe Dozier was a 46-year-old Black man from Jackson, Mississippi, who was killed in the early hours of Monday, June 10, 2019. Just before dawn police were called to the Vintage Apartments on Houston Avenue after a gunman outside the building fired multiple rounds upward into an upstairs unit. Joe was struck several times in an arm; the wounds did not hit his torso but the blood loss proved fatal. He managed to pull himself onto the second-level walkway and was found there gravely wounded; officers arrived around 3 a.m. and he died at the scene before he could be taken to a hospital.

Detectives concluded the shots came from the courtyard or parking area below and that the shooter left before police arrived. Police told reporters no arrests had been made and no motive was known; the case was recorded as Jackson’s forty-ninth homicide that year. Family and friends remember Joe as lovable, funny, and respectful of his elders. If anyone saw or heard anything that night, can you share information that might help the investigation?