In the early hours of January 27, 2015, a dispute between two men at the Emerald Pines apartment complex in Gulfport, Mississippi, ended in gunfire. Eddie L. Briggs, 29, was shot and later found on a sidewalk in front of one of the buildings with gunshot wounds to his face and shoulder. Surveillance footage showed someone dragging Briggs from the courtyard to the sidewalk after the shooting.

Witnesses say the argument began inside an upstairs apartment. After the fight was broken up, Briggs left and was followed downstairs by Henry Earl Harvey. A witness reported hearing a shot, then seeing Harvey approach Briggs with his arm extended before a second shot was fired. Harvey, then 23, fled but was tracked by a police K-9 to a wooded area about three blocks away and arrested. Officers recovered the murder weapon near where he was found and the gun’s magazine along his escape route.

Harvey was charged with Briggs’s murder; a Harrison County jury convicted him of first-degree murder in October 2016 and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. Did anyone who knew Eddie or who lived at Emerald Pines that night see something that hasn’t been shared publicly?