Taleya Guy, 27, was shot and killed on the night of January 30, 2018, in Gautier, Mississippi. A Black woman from Moss Point, Guy was a mother, a hairstylist and co-owner of a salon. She had gone with four other women to the College Villa Apartments on Ladnier Road; what began as a confrontation reportedly escalated into gunfire. Guy was fatally wounded and then moved from the scene to a vacant house on Westpark Drive, where police later found her body.
Authorities arrested the four women who were with her that night — Jasmine Anderson, 26; Phyllis Williams, 29; Lamonica Boone, 23; and Tinisha Massey, 23 — on charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, each held on $25,000 bond. Police recovered several weapons from the vacant house, and officials confirmed Guy died of a gunshot wound, but no one has been charged with her homicide and it remains unclear who fired the fatal shot.
If anyone knew Taleya, was at either the College Villa Apartments or the Westpark Drive house that night, or has information about who fired the shot, please come forward.