Jasmine Bradshaw, a 19-year-old Black woman from north Mississippi, went out on the night of July 11, 2020 to see Memphis rapper Big Boogie perform at an outdoor concert at LP's Ballpark near Como, close to the Panola–Tate County line. Flyers and local coverage described a big summer party, and by late evening the field and gravel parking areas were packed, with officials later estimating between 500 and 1,000 people at the show despite state COVID-19 limits on large gatherings.
In the early hours of July 12, as the concert continued into the night, the celebration broke into chaos. Investigators would later say that at least five different guns were used and that more than fifty shell casings were recovered from the grass and dirt around the stage and parking area, evidence of a sudden barrage of gunfire that sent the crowd running in every direction.
In that confusion, people dove behind cars and concession stands, others tried to flee in vehicles, and some were struck as drivers sped away from the shooting. Two people were mortally wounded: Jasmine and 37-year-old Elvie Wilbourne. One victim was found dead at the scene, while Jasmine was critically injured and airlifted toward a trauma center in Memphis, known locally as The Med, but she did not survive the flight. Authorities later fixed the crime scene at the 2900 block of Hunter Chapel Road, just outside Como, marking off a wide area littered with shell casings, discarded cups, and abandoned chairs. Four other concertgoers — later identified as Shannon Leach, Crystal Block, Jasmine Green, and Whitney Northern — suffered gunshot wounds but lived, and several additional people were reported injured by vehicles during the frantic escape. For family and friends, the loss was even more wrenching because Jasmine was pregnant at the time, a fact that would be noted repeatedly in subsequent coverage as loved ones spoke of “two lives taken” in a single night.
In the days immediately after the shooting, Panola County officials struggled to make sense of what had happened. At a press conference inside the county courthouse, District Attorney John Champion described the attack as “senseless” and said investigators could find no argument, fight, or other incident that clearly sparked the hail of bullets. More than one weapon had been fired from different points around the field, suggesting multiple shooters firing into a largely unsuspecting crowd. At first, authorities did not publicly name the dead, and there were no suspects, only the knowledge that dozens of shots had been fired into a gathering that witnesses said had been mostly about music, dancing, and watching the Memphis performer on stage.
As investigators worked through witness statements, social-media footage, and ballistics evidence over the following weeks, a picture began to form behind the scenes. By July 20, 2020, Panola County authorities had obtained warrants for 20-year-old Sheldon Gibbs, a Panola County man whom they now believed to be responsible for the violence at LP's Ballpark. The warrants charged him with two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Jasmine and Elvie Wilbourne and four counts of aggravated assault for the shootings of Leach, Block, Green, and Northern. According to federal summaries, the investigation that led to those warrants involved local deputies and outside agencies, including federal partners brought in to help trace leads that crossed county and state lines.
On the night of July 27, 2020, the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force moved on a house in Memphis, Tennessee, where they believed Gibbs was hiding. Working with the Shelby County Sheriff's Fugitive Apprehension Team, Memphis Police, the Multi-Agency Gang Unit, and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, they tracked him to a residence in the 220 block of McLean. Gibbs was taken into custody without incident. Inside the residence, officers seized seven additional firearms, and four other people were arrested on separate charges: Kenneth Carrethers for unlawful possession of a weapon; Denzel Dyson for possession of a weapon and possession of controlled substances with intent to deliver; Tyler Benton for unlawful possession of a weapon; and Aryanna Morris on a traffic charge. A Facebook statement from the Panola County Sheriff's Office later showed Gibbs being walked into the county justice complex, noting that he would face two murder counts and four aggravated-assault counts for the LP's Ballpark shooting when returned to Mississippi.
Even with Gibbs in custody, investigators believed he had not acted alone. On August 19, 2020, the U.S. Marshals Service announced that its fugitive task force had arrested 24-year-old Dorjan Churchman at a home in Shelby County, Tennessee. Churchman was also wanted on two first-degree murder warrants and four aggravated-assault warrants in connection with the same July 12 concert shooting. Federal officials described him as Gibbs's partner in the alleged crime. Marshals and their local partners tracked him to a residence in the 800 block of Alma Street; after officers forced open a window, Churchman surrendered and was taken into custody without further incident before being prepared for extradition back to Panola County. With both men jailed, officials publicly emphasized that some of the most dangerous suspects tied to the LP's Ballpark attack were now off the streets, though the full story of why the shooting erupted remained murky.
The violence at the concert continued to echo through later enforcement actions. In April 2021, more than a dozen people traveling in a caravan of cars and a van — several of them described by authorities as part of Big Boogie's “posse” — were stopped near Batesville, Mississippi, after a series of highway shootings. Officers from multiple agencies created a roadblock and, after surrounding the vehicles, arrested twenty-plus occupants, seizing at least one firearm, a felony amount of narcotics, and cash. While those arrests were primarily tied to the highway incidents, sheriff's officials and state investigators acknowledged that some of the people detained were believed to have been in the entourage at the July 2020 concert where Jasmine and Elvie were killed, underscoring the broader network of individuals law enforcement was scrutinizing in connection with violent events linked to that rap scene. However, public reports did not indicate that any of those entourage members were specifically charged with Jasmine's murder.
Available records focus largely on the 2020 investigation and the subsequent arrests of Gibbs and Churchman, along with the 2021 entourage sweep, and do not clearly document the ultimate outcomes of any murder trials or plea proceedings for the two primary suspects. From the perspective of court dockets and news coverage that can be accessed online, both men emerged as central figures whom investigators accused of firing into the crowd at LP's Ballpark, leaving Jasmine dead and several others wounded, but their eventual convictions or acquittals are not widely reported.
In the months after the shooting, Jasmine's family and friends gathered in Memphis to lay her to rest. An obituary from N.J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home noted that services were held on July 25, 2020, with burial at Memphis Memory Garden, while her entry on Gun Violence Memorial became a digital vigil where loved ones lit candles and left messages remembering her as bubbly, outgoing, sweet, and deeply missed. For the community around Como and for her family across the state line in Memphis, the story of that night is not only about a mass of shell casings and arrest records; it is about a young life, and an unborn child, lost at a concert that was supposed to be a brief escape from the worries of a long summer.
