On the night of November 15, 2015, a verbal dispute inside the M & M Deli on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Natchez, Mississippi, between 56-year-old Charles Edward Knight and 36-year-old Lavander Lashon Williams moved into the parking lot and became physical. After the fight, Knight tried to drive away in his blue Chevrolet pickup when Williams reportedly retrieved a firearm from his vehicle and opened fire as Knight was leaving. Knight’s truck crossed Steam Plant Road and stopped in the backyard of a church, where deputies found him with a fatal gunshot wound to his back.

Deputies tracked tire marks from the deli to the churchyard and later located Williams at Merit Health Natchez, where he was being treated for injuries from the earlier fight. Authorities arrested him in the hospital parking lot and charged him with murder; another person was later charged in connection with the shooting. Williams subsequently pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Charles Edward Knight.

Did anyone in Natchez know Knight or witness the altercation at the deli that night?