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Trellis Burnett

Case from Bay-saint-louis, MS dated Oct 22, 2020

Victim Details

Trellis Burnett

Male

Black / African American

Bay-saint-louis

MS

2020-10-22

30

Trellis

Burnett

07/17/2026

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Trellis Burnett, a 30-year-old Black man from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, known to those close to him as “TJ,” had just come home to the Gulf Coast on a Thursday night in late October 2020. He was returning from the airport, driving back through the familiar streets of his hometown, when he pulled up in front of his mother’s house on Keller Street, parking outside as he had done countless times before.

At 11:21 p.m., the calm of the neighborhood shattered. Bay St. Louis police rece ...
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  • https://www.wlox.com: Bay St. Louis murder victim was shot outside his mother’s home
  • FBI now assisting with Bay St. Louis murder investigations - WLOX
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