Canton family seeking answers after shooting kills father, injures son

Canton family seeking answers after shooting kills father, injures son

A Canton family is grieving after a father was killed in a shooting Sunday night, which also left his son severely injured

By Christopher Fields

Published: Jan. 12  2024 at 8:24 PM CST

CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mack family is still trying to come to grips with what happened Sunday night when Derrick Mack and his son were both shot.

Family members say as shots were being fired, Mack was trying to run away to dodge the bullets. Now, family members want to know who committed this crime and want them brought to justice.

“My mom is left without her baby boy,” Katina Mack-Fowler, Derrick Mack’s sister, said. “She’s hurt because her son’s life has been taken.”

Mack-Fowler and other family members are having a tough time dealing with the loss of 46-year-old Derrick Mack.

As all the siblings gathered in their mother’s living room Tuesday, it was hard for Mack’s sisters and mother to hold back the tears. Mack-Fowler says she remembers the moment she got that alarming call.

“I didn’t know what to do. I just stopped. I grabbed my phone and called my family in a group on Facetime, and I told them Derrick had been shot,” she said. “They were like, ‘What?’ I said, “Yes.’”

Canton Police Chief Otha Brown says Mack and his son, 25-year-old Quindarius Mack, were shot on Boyd Street just after 7:30 p.m. Sunday night. Chief Brown says the shooting happened after a fight broke out between the Macks’ and a neighbor.

Derrick Mack was transported to Merit Health in Canton, where he later died. Quindarius Mack was transported to UMMC with serious injuries. He’s since been released.

“It’s hard, but it’s fair on us right now. When I say hard, we’re going through this time of bereavement, but it’s fair. It’s a family out there going through the same thing,”

Derrick’s cousin, Marcus, says it’s going to be tough not being able to see his loved one again. That’s why he is hoping the person responsible for his death is brought to justice.

“Whoever did it, just come on to the front,” Marcus said. “It’s going to be in your heart forever. Whoever you are, we don’t pray nothing wrong on you. We just want you to come to the front. My family needs peace, and we want justice for my brother.”

As of now, Chief Otha Brown says Micheal Morment was brought in as a person of interest, but no one has been officially charged at this time.