Michael Anthony Woods was 41 and lived in Biloxi, Mississippi. In the late summer of 2016 he was fatally shot on September 24. Woods, known to friends and family as Big Face, worked as the Entertainment Manager for Face2Face Entertainment and helped introduce new artists into the Atlanta music scene; his death was described as a profound loss to family and community.

Orlando Newell was charged with murder in connection with the shooting and went to trial. Newell’s defense maintained he acted in self-defense, but a jury initially convicted him. That conviction was appealed on the grounds that the trial court gave a pre-arming jury instruction that allegedly undercut the self-defense claim.

In 2020 the Mississippi Supreme Court agreed the instruction was unsupported by the trial evidence and reversed Newell’s conviction, remanding the case for a new trial. Does anyone have memories of Michael Woods or information about the events surrounding the night he was killed?