Mario Dontaye Ledbetter was a 39-year-old Black man from Jackson, Mississippi, known to family and friends as Oneway. He was shot dead on the porch of a home on the 800 block of Powell Rhodes Drive just after 2:30 p.m. on May 13, 2019; officers found him unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbors said he had lived on that short stretch of Powell Rhodes Drive for most of his life and was a father surrounded by a large, close family who later held visitation and a church service.

Police reported that another man, 42, arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound and that the shooting followed an altercation between Ledbetter and another man moments earlier. A 42-year-old, Joseph Kelly, surrendered to police the next day and was charged with murder; officers said they recovered a firearm at the scene. Ledbetter had been out on bond and awaiting trial on an unrelated 2017 homicide charge at the time, and officials said it was unclear whether the events were connected.