A bullet riddled car has been found in Tunica County and three people are dead following a Friday night shooting on a Tunica highway.
The Tunica County Sheriff’s Department received a call at 9:24 p.m., from a passerby that a vehicle had run off the road and was possibly on fire on Casino Center Drive in Robinsonville, just north of Tunica.
Deputies arrived two minutes later and found the vehicle with multiple bullet holes and injured people inside. The incident was immediately deemed a homicide and ultimately three people died in the incident.
The vehicle had left the roadway and struck a utility pole.
The dead have been identified as:
• Deshun Montarrio Isabell, 24, of Tunica.
• Steve Dewayne Burts, 23, of Dundee.
• Tednequa Tenice Moore, 25 of Robinsonville
“The victims were identified by Law Enforcement while on the scene through knowledge and confirmation of identifications collected,” the Tunica County Sheriff’s Department said in a press release. “All three victims, identified as two black males and one black female, have been transported to the Mississippi Crime Lab for an autopsy.”
The Mississippi Highway Patrol Crime Scene Unit, Investigators from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation allong with a Mississippi Highway Patrol Accident Reconstruction Team are assisting with the investigation. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also been requested as evidence is recovered in this triple homicide.
The Tunica County Sheriff K.C. Hamp said anyone with any information about these homicides should notify the Tunica County Sheriff’s Office at 662-363-1411 or Tunica County CrimeStoppers at 662-910-0400. All calls to CrimeStoppers are anonymous and can result in a substantial reward for facts that result in an arrest and conviction.
Anyone with knowledge about this shooting can be charged as an accessory for failing to contact authorities.
“Like yourselves, these victims have families too and our prayers are with you all,” Hamp said in the press release. “There are no winners.”
Isabell had been involved in a shooting at River Pointe Apartments in January 2020 that sent a 17-year-old to a Memphis hospital, where he was treated and released.
Gang violence out of Memphis has been on the increase in Tunica and Coahoma County, with Clarksdale seeing a rash of what are believed to be gang violence crimes this summer.
