Travis Sanford, 33, was shot and killed inside his Woodruff Street home in Courtland, Mississippi, on the morning of Friday, March 15, 2019. According to reports, Sanford had been playing a dice game overnight with a man identified as Myron Ardyl Powell Jr. of nearby Batesville. A dispute over a $700 debt escalated; a shotgun was fired about 7:30 a.m. as the suspect fled the house. The first blast reportedly missed, the second struck Sanford. He was taken to a local hospital and died of his wounds, while his girlfriend and two small children were in the residence at the time.

The Panola County Sheriff’s Department opened an investigation, Sanford’s body was sent for autopsy, and Powell was taken into custody for questioning and later charged with murder. Sanford was also noted to have been the ex-boyfriend of Jessica Chambers; law enforcement cleared him in her 2014 death because he was incarcerated when she was killed.

Are there readers who remember the neighborhood or who have information about Sanford’s final hours?