On the morning of December 24, 2015, 17-year-old Jaquarius Jones was found collapsed on Flora Street in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and later pronounced dead at King’s Daughters Medical Center. Police say Jones and 22-year-old Julian Gayten died of gunshot wounds in what investigators describe as an exchange of gunfire between the two men. Gayten was found dead at his residence on North Jackson Street.

Investigators later characterized the incident as a robbery gone wrong and arrested 17-year-old Marionne Shalik Keys. Authorities alleged Keys had communicated with both Jones and Gayten, discussed robbing Gayten with Jones, and effectively set the two men against each other. Keys was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy after the fact to commit murder; bond was set at $50,000. The mother of Julian Gayten disputed suggestions the shooting was drug-related and said she believed her son had been targeted over an insurance settlement. The case remained under investigation as of early 2018.

Did anyone in Brookhaven know Jaquarius or Julian, or have information about communications that might clarify what happened that Christmas Eve?