Joshua Brown was 17 and from the Jackson, Mississippi area when he was shot while riding in a vehicle near Highway 80 and Lynch Street on the evening of January 8, 2016. Police say a confrontation that began between 23-year-old Nicholas Cavett and someone in Joshua’s car escalated; Cavett reportedly left the scene and returned to fire multiple shots into the vehicle. Joshua was struck in the head, taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and died the next day, January 9, 2016.

Family and obituaries remembered Joshua as loving and optimistic, nicknamed Sir smooth, and funeral services were held in Jackson on January 16, 2016. Jackson police announced Cavett had turned himself in within a day and was charged with murder in connection with the shooting. Public state corrections records later show a Nicholas Cavett with Hinds County convictions for armed robbery and second-degree murder and a combined twenty-year sentence with a tentative 2036 release date.

Did anyone who knew Joshua or witnessed the events around Highway 80 and Lynch Street that night come forward with information?