On the morning of Tuesday, February 21, 2017, Lauderdale County deputies conducting a welfare check at a home on Butts Road in Toomsuba, Mississippi, found four people dead from violent injuries. Twenty-seven-year-old Kiearra Durr was among the victims; autopsy results reported multiple gunshot wounds and sharp-force injuries. Also killed were her 65-year-old mother, Edna Durr, her 42-year-old sister, Tomecca L. Pickett, and their 5-year-old nephew, Owen Pickett, who died of stab wounds. A three-year-old child belonging to Kiearra was found physically unharmed at the scene.

Investigators focused on a domestic connection. Karon McVay, identified as Tomecca Pickett’s boyfriend, had reportedly been involved in an altercation with her at Rush Hospital the day before the killings and was present at the residence when officers arrived. He was arrested, indicted by a Lauderdale County grand jury in November 2018 on four counts of capital murder and a firearms charge, and later convicted by a circuit court jury on all counts. McVay received consecutive life-without-parole sentences for each murder.

Anyone who knew Kiearra or the family, or who has information about the events leading up to February 21, 2017, is asked to come forward.