Perry Bernard Nollins, a 28-year-old Black man from Yazoo City, Mississippi, was found dead on the evening of August 25, 2014, inside his overturned vehicle on Rainbow Street. He had suffered two gunshot wounds to the head and had been shot before his car rolled down an incline and came to rest in a ditch. Nollins had been expected to testify the next day in the murder trial of Jelani Miles; he was with the victim, Cortez Tate, when Tate was fatally shot in October 2011, and his testimony was considered crucial to the prosecution.

The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation took over the inquiry, and Nollins’ family believed he was killed to prevent his testimony. A mistrial was declared at the trial scheduled to begin the day after his death. A previously recorded statement by Nollins identifying Miles as the shooter was later allowed into evidence and used in the retrial that led to Miles’ conviction for Tate’s murder and related charges. No arrests have been announced in Nollins’ murder, which remains an open investigation.

Did anyone in Yazoo City see or hear anything on Rainbow Street the night of August 25, 2014, that could help investigators?