Finnis Butch Catledge, 59, was fatally shot in the early morning of May 12, 2015, while on duty as a security guard at the Clarksdale Public Utilities power plant in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Catledge, described as an avid ham radio operator and photographer, was inside the facility gate when he was struck by multiple rifle rounds and taken to a local medical center, where he died.

Three people were arrested in connection with the killing: 21-year-old Demarcus Bryant, 20-year-old Jeremy Evans, and 16-year-old Kentavious Tay Tay Nolan. A Coahoma County grand jury indicted all three on June 1, 2016, charging them with first-degree murder and setting bond at $500,000 each. Jeremy Evans later pleaded guilty on July 31, 2018, to conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to five years probation in exchange for testifying against the others. Demarcus Bryant was convicted of first-degree murder on November 20, 2019, after earlier mistrials, and received a life sentence; trial testimony tied ten of the twelve recovered casings to an AR-15 linked to Bryant. The case status for Kentavious Nolan is less clear from available court records.

Did anyone who knew Catledge or who was in Clarksdale around May 12, 2015, see or hear anything that could shed more light on what happened that night?