Up to $15K reward offered after 23-year-old killed in Jackson apartment complex shooting

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Jackson Police Department and Central Mississippi Crime Stoppers are asking for the public’s help to solve the July homicide of a 23-year-old man.

Officers responded around 11:15 p.m. on July 29 to the Colony Pointe Apartments in the 700 block of West County Line Road. When Precinct Three officers arrived, they found 23-year-old Robert Charles Winters III dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the parking lot near Building 19.

Investigators later determined Winters’ vehicle had been stolen from the scene. The car was described as a red 2021 Dodge Challenger with tinted windows, Florida license plate 79E XQT, and Winters’ Instagram handle displayed on the right rear window.

The car was later found torched at the intersection of Willow and Hooker streets, where the Jackson Fire Department responded to extinguish the blaze.

Family members have contributed $12,500 to Crime Stoppers’ standard $2,500 reward, bringing the total reward to $15,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Central Mississippi Crime Stoppers at 601-355-TIPS (8477) or submit an anonymous tip online.

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