In the pre-dawn hours of September 29, 2018, shots were reported on North Sixth Street in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Patrolman James Kevin White, 35, was the first officer to arrive; he and 31-year-old Corporal Zach Moak followed a trail of blood to a shed where they encountered 25-year-old Marquis Aaron Flowers. An exchange of gunfire ensued. Both officers were struck and later died at King’s Daughters Medical Center. Flowers was wounded and taken into custody.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation took over the case. Flowers, who had a prior criminal record, was charged with two counts of capital murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; after recovering from his injuries he was moved to the state penitentiary in Parchman. The shootings deeply affected the Brookhaven community; family members of the fallen officers spoke at sentencing, and a Brookhaven post office was later renamed in memory of Officer White, Corporal Moak, and another fallen officer.

Does anyone have memories of Officer White or information about that night that could shed more light on the events?