On January 2, 2017, 37-year-old Horatio Hunt Sr., a Black/African American man, was shot multiple times on Center Street in Jackson, Mississippi, and died at the scene. His 19-year-old son, Horatio Hunt Jr., was also shot in the ear and survived. The attack was described as an apparent robbery.

Investigators say a man named Jamonta Jackson arranged to meet the Hunts, opened fire on both father and son, then fled in a white vehicle after robbing the elder Hunt. Jackson was located at a hotel in Hattiesburg a few days later and charged with capital murder and aggravated assault in connection with the killing and the wounding of the son.

Reports state the killing was the city of Jackson’s first homicide of 2017. If anyone has information about the meeting that night or saw a white vehicle in the area of Center Street on January 2, 2017, please share what is known.