Broderick Dyson, a 21-year-old Black man from Jackson, Mississippi, was remembered by his family as a devoted son, brother, father, and partner whose life revolved around the people closest to him. He grew up in Jackson as the eldest of two children, raised by his mother, Shemeka Cavett, and his father, Broderick Dyson Sr., and attended local schools including Lee and Casey Elementary, Chastain Middle School, and Murrah High School.
In church he chose to be baptized as a teenager, and in his young adulthood he was already a parent himself, leaving behind a son, as well as a sister, a longtime girlfriend, and grandparents who spoke of the hole his death left in their family.
On the night of Monday, January 25, 2021, Dyson went to a store on Ridgewood Road in Jackson, near Plantation Boulevard, a stretch of road lined with small businesses and gas stations that locals passed every day. Sometime just before 10:30 p.m., what began as a verbal dispute between Dyson and another man escalated sharply. Witness accounts relayed to police described a confrontation that turned heated; in those tense moments, the other man produced a gun and opened fire. Officers later reported that Dyson was shot multiple times in the 5800 block of Ridgewood Road and that he succumbed to his injuries at the scene despite efforts to reach him quickly.
In the immediate aftermath, Jackson police treated the area around the store as a homicide scene, working under the glare of emergency lights while the neighborhood watched from behind the tape. Investigators quickly focused on the gunman’s escape: witnesses and surveillance footage indicated that the shooter fled in what appeared to be a white Dodge Challenger, a detail that would become central to the investigation. Detectives released still images from the store’s cameras showing a man they believed to be connected to the killing and the distinctive white car, asking the public to help identify him. Reports from that night also noted that several individuals were initially detained for questioning as officers tried to reconstruct the sequence of the argument and the shooting on the busy corridor.
Within days, the investigation produced a named suspect. Local news outlets reported that 28-year-old Tyrone Samuel came forward and surrendered to authorities after his image and the car description circulated publicly. Police officials stated that the shooting on Ridgewood Road stemmed from an argument that spiraled into gunfire, and they announced that Samuel had been charged with murder in connection with Dyson’s death. Jail records compiled later show Samuel booked into the Hinds County jail on a murder charge on January 27, 2021, consistent with the timeline police gave when they said he had turned himself in. Additional jail entries list another murder booking for Samuel in Hinds County in December 2021, suggesting that the homicide charge related to Dyson’s killing continued to move through the court system, though publicly available news coverage does not clearly document a final trial or conviction in the case.
As the legal process unfolded largely out of the spotlight, Dyson’s family and community were left to carry his memory. Online memorials describe him as a young man deeply rooted in Jackson, with dozens of messages and digital candles lit in his honor, marking him as “lost to gun violence” at the start of 2021. The obituary and grave listings emphasize the loved ones he left behind—his child, mother, sister, girlfriend, and grandparents—and the short span of years between his schooling in Jackson and the night his life ended on Ridgewood Road. Together, those records paint a picture of a case in which the suspect was swiftly identified and charged, yet the public record remains more complete about who Dyson was in life, and the grief that followed, than about any courtroom conclusion to the homicide that took him away.
