In the morning of July 16, 1996, four people were shot inside Tardy Furniture in Winona, Mississippi. Victims were owner Bertha Tardy, 59; employees Carmen Rigby, 45, and Robert Golden, 42, who were pronounced dead at the scene; and 16-year-old Derrick BoBo Stewart, who survived for a week before dying of his injuries. Stewart had recently started working at the store.

Investigators arrested Curtis Giovanni Flowers seven months later and charged him with the killings. Prosecutors argued motive was revenge for his recent firing and a dispute over his final paycheck, and eyewitnesses reportedly placed Flowers near the store that morning. Flowers was tried six times; early convictions were overturned, later trials ended in hung juries, and a 2010 conviction and death sentence were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 for racial bias in jury selection. Flowers was released on bail in December 2019 and the state later declined to seek another trial.

The Tardy Furniture murders remain officially unsolved. Does anyone have information about Derrick Stewart or his time at the store that could shed light on that July morning?