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In the early morning hours of Sunday, August 7, 2016, a dispute at a Corner Store gas station on Clay Street in Vicksburg turned deadly. The argument began inside the store and continued into the parking lot, where 22-year-old Jerome Rankin was fatally shot; three other people were wounded in the same incident. Officers arriving at 12:41 a.m. described a chaotic scene as they began to piece together what happened.

Within days investigators identified four suspects and each was charged with murder and three counts of aggravated assault. Arnold Dewayne Harris Jr., 22, Melvin Wiggins, 26, 17-year-old Jamarion Jones, and 21-year-old Leon Younger were taken into custody; each bond was set at $4 million. The case was bound over to the Warren County grand jury, and the investigation indicated the shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between two groups.

Does anyone have information about the events at that Corner Store or about the dispute that led to Rankin’s death?