On a Saturday morning in February 2022, Tarik Domino, a 45-year-old male truck driver from Baton Rouge, climbed down from his Capitol City Produce rig to make a routine delivery of fruits and vegetables to the Dollar General on Clinton Boulevard in Jackson, Mississippi. It was the kind of stop he made countless times, known among coworkers as someone who worked hard and kept spirits high, the “Top Banana” and “French Quarter King” who turned the loading yard into a place of jokes,
pushup contests, and easy laughter.
Around late morning, as Domino went about his work, an argument flared between two men near the store. Witnesses later described a heated dispute that spilled into violence just after 11 a.m., when one of the men drew a gun and fired at the other. In the chaos, a bullet tore through the scene and struck Domino in his left side as he stood apart from the confrontation, an uninvolved bystander suddenly pulled into someone else’s fight. Glass at the front of the store shattered, and the quiet rhythm of a delivery run became a crime scene marked by shell casings and police tape. Domino was rushed to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, but he died shortly after arriving, and investigators emphasized that he had never been the intended target, only a working man in the wrong place at the worst possible moment.
In the days that followed, the loss rippled outward—from the Jackson street where he fell back to Baton Rouge, where his colleagues and family tried to process how a simple delivery could end with a fatal stray bullet. His employer publicly mourned him, describing a man who pushed others to do better while making them laugh, a fixture in the warehouse and on the road whose absence was immediately felt. In Jackson, police set about trying to turn grainy images into a name. Detectives reviewed store surveillance footage and stills showing the men involved in the altercation, then released those images to local media and posted them on social media, asking anyone who recognized the gunman to call Crime Stoppers. For months, the case lived in that tense space between outrage and uncertainty, with the family and the public left to wait while flyers, news clips, and police posts carried Domino’s name but no suspect in custody.
A breakthrough finally came more than nine months later. On November 26, 2022, Jackson police arrested 27-year-old Jacob Collins on an outstanding murder warrant, identifying him as the man they believed had fired the shot that killed Domino during the February 19 delivery. According to police accounts summarized in local coverage, Collins was allegedly one of the men in the original argument at the Dollar General; when he opened fire on his rival, the bullet that left his weapon instead struck Domino, who collapsed and later died at the hospital. Authorities stressed again that Domino had never been part of the dispute—only a worker caught in the crossfire. Collins was taken into custody and held on a $500,000 bond after his arrest, facing a murder charge tied to the shooting.
Public reporting on the case concentrates on the killing, the months-long search, and Collins’s eventual arrest and charging, but offers no widely documented account of what has happened since inside a courtroom. As of the latest accessible coverage, news stories and public incident records describe an accused gunman behind bars on a murder warrant and a family still defined in the public record by the phrase “struck by a stray bullet,” with no prominent reports of a trial, verdict, or sentence to mark a formal end to the case.
