Chivas McElveen was 37 when he was fatally shot in the northeast area of Jackson, Mississippi, on May 9, 2016. Reports say he died of multiple gunshot wounds, and the shooting prompted a homicide investigation that identified a primary suspect.

Authorities named Christopher Craig Bennett as the person allegedly responsible and issued a warrant charging him with capital murder. Bennett had earlier been arrested during a traffic stop in Ridgeland on February 12, 2016, when officers found a pistol, an assault rifle, and about twenty pounds of marijuana in his vehicle; he later pleaded guilty to the drug charge and received a 30-year sentence in April 2017.

The capital murder trial for McElveen was set to begin July 10, 2017, in Hinds County with Judge Tommie Green presiding. Did anyone in the Jackson area have information about McElveen or the events that night?