A Shot In The Dark...

About the Book

When all is said and done, one fact remains. On the night of May 11, 1967, a crowd of protestors marched east on Lynch Street, throwing debris at a line of officers. Shots rang out, several people were wounded, one fatally. Who fired the shot in the dark that killed Benjamin Brown, a supposedly innocent bystander who lost his life on his twenty-second birthday? Who knows what really happened that night? Eyewitnesses gave their accounts, then turned around and recanted those statements. This book recounts the happenings of that momentous night from an objective eye. A true-to-life account that will hopefully remind us of justice, If not, bring closure to wounds left by injustice.

About the Author

About The Author Willie Mack is a retired Homicide Detective from the Jackson, Mississippi Police Department. His many accolades include Metro Top Cop August 1996; Officer of the Month, July 1996 and April 1999; and Tri County Law Enforcement Officer of the Year 1999. Having faithfully devoted 24 years of service to the City of Jackson (1980-2004), Mack now devotes his time to his private investigations business which is W. Mack & Associates, his four daughters and his wife of almost 33 years, Mary, while working numerous homicides as a detective in the Jackson Mississippi Police Department. I thought I knew the hurt and pain a family member felt upon losing a love one to a senseless act of violence. But I didn’t know pain until I lost my granddaughter to a hit-and-run motor vehicle in November 2004 several months after retiring from the Jackson Police Department.