On Sunday, February 2, 2020, police in Jackson, Mississippi, launched a homicide investigation following a deadly shooting at a business on Robinson Road. Officers responded to the scene in the 3500 block of Robinson Street, where they discovered two men who had been shot. One of the victims was identified as Roy Lee Fitzgerald, a 69-year-old Black male.
He and the second victim, identified as 57-year-old Roger Chapman, were both pronounced dead at the scene.
Initial reports from the Jackson Police Department indicated that the motive for the double homicide appeared to be robbery. Authorities believed the incident occurred during a theft at the location, which escalated into violence. The deaths of Fitzgerald and Chapman were recorded as the ninth and tenth homicides in the city for that year, contributing to a spike in violent crime that local law enforcement was tracking closely at the time.
Following the shooting, investigators worked to gather evidence from the scene and appealed to the public for information. Despite the early assessment pointing toward a robbery gone wrong, no immediate arrests were announced in the aftermath of the crime. Publicly available reports from the years following the incident have not detailed any subsequent apprehensions, suspects, or convictions specifically tied to the murders of Fitzgerald and Chapman, leaving the case without a reported resolution in open news sources.
