TUNICA COUNTY, Miss — The Tunica County Sheriff's Office is urging the Mid-South to come forward with information about a deadly shooting that took place Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday, authorities named Korea T. McKay of Tunica as a suspect and Jeffrey Pickett of Tunica as a person of interest.
At about 3 p.m. the Tunica County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call from a witness telling them that someone had been shot in the 1000 block of Kirby Estates. Deputies arrived and then identified one victim from Crawford, Mississippi — Davao Thomas — suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Thomas later died.
Witnesses told authorities McKay shot the man and then fled the scene in a pickup truck that could be brown, according to the Tunica County Sheriff's Office.
Pickett was also seen in the passenger seat of this truck, according to the Tunica County Sheriff's Office.
This incident remains under investigation.
If you have any information, call (662) 363-1411 or CrimeStoppers at (662) 910-0400.
