Kristopher Kris Haywood, 28, was working at the Local Express service station on Jefferson Street in Macon, Mississippi, when a hooded person entered and robbed the business around 10:30 p.m. on March 2, 2015. Haywood was shot in the head during the robbery, taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, and died of his wounds on March 4, 2015.

Four people were arrested in the weeks after the killing: Jonathon Shumaker, then 24, Elizabeth Layne Reed, 19, and brothers Justin Williams, 19, and Joshua Williams, 17, all charged with capital murder. Shumaker was indicted by a grand jury in September 2015. In November 2019 new evidence — including a cell phone recording placing Shumaker and the others in Shuqualak about five minutes after the 911 call, and no forensic link between them and the scene — prompted their release on bond. In June 2023 the charges against all four were dropped and the case returned to cold-case status. Local businesses and the District Attorney’s office have offered a reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.

Does anyone have information about that night or about Haywood that could help move this case forward?