On the morning of September 8, 2000, Assistant Chief Emma Horton, 38, of the Goodman Police Department went to her brother-in-law’s home in Goodman, Mississippi, to discuss a scheduling dispute with his wife and their daughter. The visit escalated into violence when the brother-in-law ordered Horton to leave and shot her in the buttocks with a department-issued shotgun. Horton retreated into a bathroom, called for help, and was then struck by multiple rounds fired through the closed bathroom door from two department-issued .40 caliber handguns. She was shot 14 times, never drew her service weapon, and was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The suspect was arrested minutes after the shooting. At an October 2002 trial, a jury acquitted him after accepting a claim of self-defense. Horton had served the Goodman Police Department for five years.

Was anyone in Goodman that morning or afterward aware of tensions within the department or the family that might shed light on what happened?