Deontay M. Rogers, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot the night of August 24, 2017, at the Brooksville Gardens apartment complex in Starkville, Mississippi. The shooting occurred about 9:20 p.m.; Rogers was taken by private vehicle to OCH Regional Medical Center and was pronounced dead on arrival. His body was sent to the Mississippi Crime Lab for autopsy and the death was investigated as a homicide.

That same night police arrested 16-year-old Tomas Bradford of Starkville and charged him with Rogers’ murder. Bradford was already out on bond for an unrelated 2016 murder and armed robbery; his bond on the new charge was set at $2,000,000 and a judge revoked his prior bond so he remained in custody. In April 2019 Bradford, then 18, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and armed robbery in the 2016 case and received a combined 30-year sentence; as part of that plea the state agreed to retire the first-degree murder charge tied to Rogers’ death.

Does anyone have information about the shooting or recall activity at Brooksville Gardens that evening?