Lakendris Chisholm, 24, was killed by gunfire in Woodville, Mississippi, on May 1, 2019. The shooting occurred during a reported shootout that also wounded a second person.

Within a day investigators identified a person of interest and, with assistance from the Wilkinson County Sheriff’s Office, the Woodville Police Department arrested 18-year-old Clarence Lil Daddy Shorts Jr. of Woodville. Shorts was charged with murder in Chisholm’s death and with aggravated assault for the injured second victim, and was booked into the Wilkinson County Jail held without bond.

Authorities did not immediately disclose a motive for the shootout. Did anyone in Woodville have information about what led to that evening’s violence?