On March 17, 2014, 20-year-old Demario Johnson of Jackson, Mississippi, was found shot once in the back of the head in his tan car at the Melrose Apartments on West Highland Drive. Responders discovered the vehicle partly up on a ledge near a ditch with Demario still in the driver’s seat; the single wound was fatal. Family members said he had likely been visiting his girlfriend at the complex that day, and they were already mourning another cousin buried the previous week.

Residents described the area as plagued by violence and criticized apartment security. Jackson police opened a homicide investigation but initially reported no arrests, no suspects in custody, and few solid leads, and detectives asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers. Demario’s death appears on online memorials and lists of 2014 homicides that remained under investigation.

If anyone who lived at or visited the Melrose Apartments on March 17, 2014, has information about what happened, please come forward to investigators.