On the evening of New Year’s Eve 2016 a single shotgun blast ended the life of 42-year-old Amy Renee Stewart in her Pelahatchie, Mississippi home in the Walters Community. Responders to a 911 call found Stewart on a living room couch with a fatal shotgun wound to the chest; medical personnel were unable to revive her and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her roommate, John Preston Finch, was found intoxicated and covered in blood at the scene and initially described the shooting as an accident. Investigators from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office later found inconsistencies in his account; Finch confessed during questioning, saying an argument over heating a pizza escalated, that he retrieved a single-barrel 12-gauge shotgun from a bedroom, returned to the living room, pointed it at Stewart and fired. Finch was arrested, charged with murder, and later convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to thirty years in a Mississippi prison.

Does anyone have additional details about the Walters Community or knew Amy Renee Stewart and can share information that might help others understand what happened?