On the evening of February 14, 2016, a dispute inside the Rite Aid on McDowell Road in Jackson, Mississippi, ended with 48-year-old Kenneth Barnes shot multiple times. The shooting occurred just before 9 p.m. after a verbal altercation between Barnes and a store employee, 29-year-old Eleysia Perkins. Witness statements and surveillance footage show the argument continued as Barnes was leaving; Perkins allegedly retrieved a firearm from the back of the store and shot Barnes, and the gunshot wounds were fatal.

Jackson Police officers took Perkins into custody at the scene. Investigators reviewed evidence and interviewed witnesses, and Perkins was charged with murder and held without bond as the case proceeded to the Hinds County Grand Jury. Reports note Barnes and Perkins were previously acquainted, but the specific nature of that relationship and what triggered the confrontation have not been released.

If anyone was in the Rite Aid that night or has information about Barnes and Perkins’ prior acquaintance, please share what is known.