A deadly confrontation after a Mardi Gras parade left two volunteer firefighters dead in Natchez, Mississippi. On the night of March 1, 2019, 34-year-old Jason Haley and his friend and fellow volunteer firefighter Troy Whittington were at a friend’s home on Quasar Street when the woman’s estranged husband, Jonathan Beach, arrived and tried to force his way inside. Deputies had earlier been called about deer cameras Beach allegedly set up to surveil the woman, and a second 911 call was placed when he returned.

Haley and Whittington armed themselves while the woman and her children were locked in a back bedroom. When Beach entered, an exchange of gunfire occurred; both Haley and Whittington were fatally shot. Haley wounded Beach before he died. Beach, then 36, was found leaving the scene covered in blood and still armed and was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. He sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was hospitalized.

At trial Beach claimed self-defense and the defense argued the ex-wife had instigated the confrontation. In May 2021 an Adams County jury found Jonathan Beach not guilty on all charges and he was released. Does anyone have memories of Haley, where he served as a volunteer firefighter, or information about that night?