On November 27, 2019, Courtney Dewayne Anderson, a 38-year-old Black man, was found inside a residence on Halls Ferry Road in Vicksburg, Mississippi with a single gunshot wound to his chest and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say the shooting led investigators to Jason Skinner, who fled but was taken into custody less than five hours later after an alarm at Crossway Baptist Church on U.S. 61 South alerted officers to his location. A sawed-off shotgun recovered at the scene is reported to be the weapon used.

Prosecutors told the court they believed Skinner acted because he mistakenly thought Anderson threatened Skinner’s former girlfriend; no words were exchanged between Anderson and Skinner before the shooting. Skinner claimed he shot Anderson in self-defense. A jury found Jason Skinner guilty of first-degree murder after a four-day trial and brief deliberation; he was sentenced to life in prison.

Did anyone in Vicksburg know Courtney Anderson or have additional information about the events leading up to that night?