Anthony Bridges, 40, was shot and killed in Heidelberg, Jasper County, Mississippi on August 24, 2015. Local law enforcement from the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department and the Heidelberg Police Department investigated the fatal shooting.

A Jasper County grand jury indicted Kendrick A. Waters in 2016 on first-degree murder, accessory after the fact, and possession of a firearm by a felon. Waters pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder after prosecutors said they would call Andrew Chandler Yeend, other witnesses, and officers to place Waters at the scene. Waters admitted the killing at his plea hearing and was later sentenced in August 2016 to a thirty-year term with twenty years to serve, ten years suspended, and a period of post-release and unsupervised supervision.

Waters subsequently sought to withdraw his plea, arguing involuntariness and newly discovered notes he said implicated someone else; courts found the notes were known before the plea and his sworn plea statements contradicted the coercion claim. His state post-conviction relief was denied, and a federal habeas petition was dismissed as time-barred.

If anyone knew Anthony Bridges or has information about the Heidelberg shooting on August 24, 2015, please share what is known.