On the morning of October 26, 2016, 25-year-old Lance Tyrone Mackbee of Bogue Chitto was found dead inside a parked car on South Center Street in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Officers responding to a report of a man sleeping in a vehicle discovered Mackbee had been shot multiple times; investigators believed he had not driven himself to that location.

Police named 21-year-old Travis Antonio Brinson of Brookhaven a person of interest. Brinson went to the station after learning police wanted to speak with him, and he was subsequently arrested and charged with Mackbee’s murder. That killing was Brookhaven’s only homicide that year.

In January 2017 a municipal court judge dismissed the murder charge against Brinson for lack of probable cause and he was released after having been jailed since his arrest. The police chief said he planned to present the case to a grand jury, but public information about the investigation goes cold after Brinson’s release and it is unclear whether the case was ever brought to a grand jury or whether other suspects were identified.

Did anyone in the area know Lance, his movements that night, or have information about who might have been involved?