On February 18, 2023, a domestic dispute in Jackson, Mississippi, ended in the death of 46-year-old Michelle Renee Roberts. Roberts, a White woman and Jackson-area resident, was found deceased at the scene from a gunshot; a male involved in the same incident was also shot and taken for medical treatment. Local reports described the episode as a domestic altercation in which the wounded man’s mother was killed, indicating a familial connection among those present.

The Jackson Police Department opened a homicide investigation and classified the case as a domestic violence homicide, but initial reports did not release the shooter’s identity or a detailed sequence of events. Roberts is survived by three sons, Preston Ferrell, Brandon Ferrell, and Kenneth Roberts, plus a brother and a granddaughter.

If anyone in Jackson has information about this domestic violence homicide, please come forward to assist the investigation.