Percy King, 57, known locally as the Snake Man, was shot and killed at his Scott Street home in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 12, 2018. Officers responding shortly before 12:30 p.m. found King in his front yard with multiple gunshot wounds. Nineteen-year-old Jarvis Birtfield was also found dead nearby on the street with a gunshot wound to the head.

An off-duty Hinds County deputy and a neighbor witnessed the attack and detained 35-year-old Jamario Bell at the scene until Jackson police arrived; Bell was arrested in connection with the two deaths. King was a longtime wildlife educator and Jackson Zoo employee who had been appointed to the zoo’s board in 2017 and often brought reptiles and other animals to schools and community programs.

What details about that day or the relationships between the people involved might help explain why this happened?