Demetrius Pate, 33, was fatally shot in Lucedale, Mississippi, on July 11, 2017. Local authorities classified the death as a homicide and opened an investigation.

A suspect, identified as Montell Jazauancgo Bogan, voluntarily surrendered in the days after the shooting and was arrested. Bogan was charged with first-degree murder and booked into the George County Regional Correctional Facility. The case went to trial, a jury convicted Bogan of the murder of Demetrius Pate, and he received a life sentence in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

If anyone in the Lucedale area remembers the events around July 11, 2017, or has information that wasn’t shared at the time, please come forward.