Shortly after midnight on May 12, 2022, gunfire was reported at an apartment complex in the 800 block of 29th Street in Meridian, Mississippi. Officers arrived around 2 a.m. and found a silver Buick with the engine running and music playing. Inside the vehicle was 19-year-old Jaqualyn Martez Darby, a Black male born August 18, 2002, with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest, abdomen and arm; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Darby’s family last saw him about midnight before he left his residence.

The investigation went cold for nearly two years. In April 2024, Meridian police announced an arrest in the case: 19-year-old Dezjuan D. Moffite was charged with murder and held without bond. In May 2024 three more people were arrested and charged with accessory after the fact — Irulan Lee, 19, Jaquarion Stewart, 18, and Jukeilia Bohannon, 18; Stewart was held without bond and Lee’s bond was set at $100,000.

Are there details about Darby’s last hours or anyone who saw him leaving that night that could help the investigation?