Timothy Butler, a 25-year-old Black father from Tupelo, Mississippi, was killed by gunfire on April 6, 2017, alongside his close friend Andrew Latrez Robinson. Friends and funeral notices remember Butler as good-natured and deeply rooted in Tupelo; his funeral was held at Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church with burial at Porter’s Memorial Park. Both men are listed on national gun-violence memorial rolls for that date, and Robinson’s obituary confirms he died in Tupelo the same day, with notices describing a musical partnership between the two friends.

Subsequent appeals from Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi and a petition alleging that families had not been contacted and that evidence existed suggest the case remained unresolved years later.

Did anyone in Tupelo know Timothy or Andrew, or have information about the April 6, 2017 shooting?