On the night of May 5, 2023, 19-year-old Travione Jones was fatally shot in a mass shooting in a Natchez, Mississippi strip mall parking lot behind a Popeye’s on D’Evereux Drive. Jones and another 19-year-old, Devon Winchester, had just exited a vehicle when assailants opened fire from the area near the Cash Savers supermarket. Dozens of rounds — investigators say more than 30 spent shell casings were recovered — struck the scene; Jones and Winchester were killed and three other people were wounded.

Police from the Natchez Police Department and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office responded and linked the attack to an ongoing local feud described as retaliatory violence. In the days after the shooting, multiple arrests followed: on May 9, 2023, Kadeem Rykeim Conner, 25, and Mark Jordan Mitchell, 32, were charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. Subsequent arrests included 28-year-old Douglas Mazique on June 14 charged with conspiracy to commit murder, and 27-year-old Tywone Marquise Noble on July 12 charged with a similar conspiracy count. A fifth suspect, 22-year-old Jamionte Davis, was identified in a warrant and listed as Natchez’s most wanted.

One of the accused, Kadeem Conner, was released on a $300,000 bond in November 2024 after being held without an indictment. What did anyone who was in that parking lot that night see or hear that could help clarify who fired and from exactly where?