On the morning of August 3, 2015, 37-year-old Kendrick Armond Brown was standing outside the Madison County Courthouse in Canton, Mississippi, awaiting a court appearance on charges of selling cocaine and conspiracy to sell cocaine. A man approached and fired a single, fatal shot to Brown’s chest with a semiautomatic handgun. Brown was pronounced dead at 9:05 a.m., about 30 minutes after the shooting was reported. His attorney witnessed the shooting.

The shooter was identified as 24-year-old William Wells. He did not flee: after firing the shot he laid down his weapon and surrendered to law enforcement officers who rushed from the courthouse. Investigators noted that Wells’ mother had been shot and injured two days earlier; Canton Police Chief Otha Brown acknowledged that earlier shooting but did not confirm whether Kendrick Brown’s killing was retaliatory. Friends described Kendrick Brown as a good man who loved his son and didn’t bother anyone.

Did anyone in Canton witness the courthouse shooting or have information about the earlier attack on Wells’ mother?