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Howard Lee Blackmon Jr., a 38-year-old Black man, was killed in a burst of gunfire during a daytime shootout on Lelia Drive in Jackson, Mississippi, on February 19, 2016. The shooting occurred on a late Friday afternoon in a residential neighborhood; another person was struck but survived.

Jackson Police responded to the scene and launched a homicide investigation into the crossfire incident. Within days investigators identified and arrested three people in connection with the fatal shootout: Antrell Williams, Nicholas Coats, and Shardell Reed, each charged with murder.

What details about that afternoon on Lelia Drive or the people involved might still help explain how the shooting started and who fired the fatal shots?