In April 2019, Deaubrey Roscoe was found in the front yard of his Oak Street home in Indianola, Mississippi, suffering from two gunshot wounds. He was discovered in a pool of blood and later died; an autopsy showed gunshot wounds to his right upper arm and right upper back.

Later, Roscoe was lured outside his house. Damian Buck, Barnes’s brother, became involved; Buck testified that Roscoe drew a weapon and shot Barnes in the leg, and that Buck then drew his own gun and fired twice while running for cover. Buck said he was unsure whether he had hit Roscoe. Both Buck and Barnes were arrested in connection with Roscoe’s death.

Damian Buck was charged with first-degree murder; a Sunflower County jury convicted him of the lesser-included offense of manslaughter and found a firearm enhancement true. He received a twenty-year sentence with fifteen years to be served in custody and five years of post-release supervision, plus a concurrent five-year term for the enhancement. The conviction and sentence were later upheld on appeal. Samuel Barnes’s case was separated and scheduled for a later trial.

Does anyone have information about the confrontation on Oak Street that night or about Roscoe’s movements leading up to it?