Adrian Terrell Hawkins, a 27-year-old Black male from Jackson, Mississippi, was known to his friends and family by the nicknames "Ebay" and "Crazy Legs." Born in May 1988 to parents Lisa Hawkins and Percy Anthony, he grew up in the local community where he attended Jackson Public Schools. During his youth, he developed a reputation as a talented athlete, particularly in track and field where he earned his "Crazy Legs" moniker, though his favorite sport was basketball.
He was a father to three children and was remembered by those who knew him as an energetic and outgoing person who had accepted his faith at a young age.
On the evening of April 10, 2016, tragedy struck the Hawkins family at a residence on Pinebrook Drive in Jackson. While standing in the driveway of the home, Hawkins was ambushed and shot multiple times. Emergency responders and the Jackson Police Department arrived at the scene, but he succumbed to his injuries, marking a violent end to his life just weeks before his twenty-eighth birthday. His death left a void in his family, who later celebrated his memory with a service at Jackson Memorial Funeral Service.
In the wake of the shooting, investigators from the Jackson Police Department began working the case, treating it as a homicide. Despite the public nature of the shooting in a residential neighborhood, online reports and crime archives from the years following the incident do not indicate that a suspect was immediately apprehended or that charges were filed in connection with his specific murder. While later violence in the city, including a separate triple homicide on the same street in 2021 and the tragic death of a 12-year-old with a similar name in 2022, garnered significant media attention and arrests, the 2016 case involving Adrian Terrell Hawkins appears to have remained without a publicly reported resolution or conviction in available records.
