On the evening of April 17, 2017, 38-year-old Aaron Beamon was shot and killed in Indianola, Mississippi after returning home from a shopping trip to Memphis. Beamon was riding in his Chevrolet Tahoe with Svante Pernell, Zachary Lee, and Melissa Ross when, as they pulled up to Ross’s residence on Galaxy Street, two armed men appeared and opened fire on the vehicle. Beamon, Pernell, and Lee were all wounded; the three men managed to flee to a nearby home and waited there for law enforcement.

An autopsy found Beamon died of a gunshot wound to the back and his death was ruled a homicide. The investigation resulted in the arrest and conviction of Garrick Price, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in Beamon’s death, two counts of attempted first-degree murder for the injuries to Pernell and Lee, and possession of a firearm by a felon. The court imposed a life sentence for the murder, concurrent twenty-year terms for the attempted murders, and a five-year term for firearm possession, with an additional ten-year consecutive sentence from a firearm enhancement.

Does anyone have information about Beamon, the shooting that night, or the people who were with him?