On the night of March 14, 2015, 66-year-old Myrtle Messenger was shot in the neck and killed after answering a knock at the front door of her home at 711 Poplar Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where she lived with her husband George Messenger and their adult grandson Michael Messenger. Investigators say the shooting followed a daytime dispute between Michael and Dantrell Pole Jackson over Jackson’s girlfriend; Jackson and another man, Connell Gray Jr., went to the grandparents’ house later that night. A Clarksdale Police Department investigator testified that only one shot was fired, and a forensic scientist linked a .357 revolver to the homicide.

Both Gray and Jackson were identified as suspects; Gray was arrested in December 2015 and Jackson about two weeks after the murder. Gray was tried in December 2019, convicted of first-degree murder by a jury in under an hour and sentenced to life in the Mississippi Department of Corrections; that conviction was affirmed in May 2021. Jackson was convicted in November 2021 and sentenced to life in prison.

Does anyone have information about Myrtle, the household at 711 Poplar Street, or the events of March 14, 2015?