A 2-year-old boy named Camari Givens went to sleep on Queen Alexandria Lane Saturday night and never woke up. His mother, Keyana Weathersby, 25, was dead beside him. Her sister, Erica Weathersby, 30, was dead too. All three were found riddled with gunshot wounds inside their south Jackson, Mississippi home when officers showed up just after ten o’clock that night. Three people. One house. Nobody survived to tell the whole story.
Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said dispatch got the call around 10:10 p.m. — somebody phoned in what sounded like an aggravated assault at a residence in the 300 block of Queen Alexandria. When officers got there and talked to the person who called, what they walked into was far worse than anyone on that call anticipated. Keyana, Camari, and Erica were already gone. No pulse on any of them. The Hinds County coroner’s office later confirmed the gruesome details — Keyana had been shot multiple times in the head. Little Camari, just two years old, took bullets to the head, face, and arm. Erica had been shot in the head, upper torso, and her extremities. Whoever did this was not trying to wound anyone. They were trying to make sure nobody made it out.
The women were sisters. That alone makes this gut-wrenching enough. But the toddler — Camari — was Keyana’s son. A little boy still figuring out the world, not even old enough to understand danger, was caught in the middle of something nobody’s been able to explain yet. Police have not announced a motive. They haven’t said who they’re looking for by name. What they do know is that a red 2020 Mitsubishi Mirage with the Mississippi plate HSI 205 is connected to this. That car was last spotted on Medgar Evers Drive, and authorities are calling the suspect armed and dangerous. The message from police is clear — do not approach, do not hesitate to call.
Those three deaths — Keyana, Camari, and Erica — became the 39th, 40th, and 41st homicides recorded in Jackson for 2026. That number is sobering by itself. The city had actually been making real progress. Jackson had gotten under 100 homicides in 2025 for the first time since 2019 — a 32 percent drop from 2024. Leaders were cautiously optimistic. Then a Saturday night like this one comes along and strips all that hope bare. Three lives. Gone. In one home. In one night.
Mayor John Horhn didn’t hold back. “Our city is hurting,” he said in a public statement Sunday. “Violence against the innocent is intolerable, and as your Mayor, I will not accept this as the norm for our community.” He pledged to deploy extra resources immediately and said the city is putting together a larger plan — something that pulls in law enforcement, mental health professionals, faith leaders, violence prevention specialists, and residents from the neighborhoods hit hardest by this kind of thing. Horhn acknowledged what a lot of people already know, which is that solving a homicide — no matter how efficiently — cannot undo a single thing for the families left picking up the pieces.
Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones echoed that sentiment in his own words and did not mince them. “A crime this cowardly and this cruel wounds all of us,” he said. “We are living through too many of these moments. Too many lives cut short. Too many families left to bury the people they love. I refuse to accept this as normal.” It’s the kind of statement that hits different when it follows a story about a toddler with gunshot wounds to his face and a mother dead beside him. These weren’t abstract victims. They were a family — two sisters and a baby — spending a Saturday night together in their own home.
As of Sunday, no arrests had been made. The investigation is active and police are urging anyone who has information about that red Mitsubishi Mirage or its driver to reach out to the Jackson Police Department or Crime Stoppers immediately. Somewhere out there is a person or persons who walked into a home, shot a young mother, her toddler son, and her sister, then drove off into the night. The Weathersby family is shattered. South Jackson is shaken. And until that car and whoever was behind the wheel are found, the story of Queen Alexandria Lane is far from over.
