5 charged with capital murder after deadly Super Bowl party in Moss Point
A Jackson County grand jury has indicted five men on capital murder charges in the deadly 2018 home invasion during a Super Bowl party that officials said was gang-related.
The five men accused in the Feb. 4, 2018, attack in Moss Point are scheduled to appear in court before Judge Robert Krebs on Tuesday. They are: Robert “S.J.” Jackson; Darrian Dontae “Kreole K” Cooks; Tykice “Kreole Ty” Laddel Watts; Sirmarrion “SBM” Davis; and Michael Anthony Doss.
The attack began after masked and armed intruders busted through a side door of a Bellview Avenue home during a Super Bowl party among friends.
By the time it was over, Fabian Dwight Dailey, 50, was dead and two others were injured with gunshot wounds.
Once the intruders were inside, they found people sitting around a table playing cards and watching the game, according to authorities and a sworn affidavit filed in the case. They ordered everyone to get on the floor.
The suspects fired the first shot within a minute of the intrusion after two of the suspects — one armed with a rifle with a wooden stock and the other with a .10-mm semi-automatic handgun — ordered a resident down a hallway into a bedroom.
The suspects, a sworn statements says, stole an ounce of marijuana and a cellphone from that bedroom before one of the gunmen noticed an adult and two minors in another bedroom playing video games.
The first shot hit the adult in the other bedroom when he attempted to grab a weapon from the suspects in an effort to protect the minors.
Dailey was shot and killed when he tried to wrestle a gun away. The other injury came as the intruders fired weapons on their way out of the home, authorities said.
Shortly after the attack, Moss Point Police Chief Brandon Ashley said it was “gang-related” and that the victims had been targeted.
In the aftermath of the shooting, tips came in from residents who reported seeing the alleged gunmen running to two vehicles backed into a carport of a home directly behind the home where the shooting occurred.
Police collected other evidence as the investigation continued, including one of the victim’s cellphones in a yard behind Jackson’s home.
Police learned more about the crime, an FBI agent said in a sworn affidavit, from a man who said he tried to take part in the robbery, but was told he wasn’t needed.
That same witness, records say, had allowed Watts to borrow a 10 mm Glock semi-automatic handgun used in the assault and killing. The FBI agent said shell casings recovered from the scene matched ballistics from the borrowed handgun.
As the investigation continued, authorities collected other evidence that would help lead to arrests in the case.
Defense attorneys have criticized prosecutors and law enforcement officials for reportedly failing to collect any fingerprints or physical evidence to tie the suspects to the crime.
In the aftermath of the attack, local officials called on neighbors, Moss Point residents and any other witnesses to report evidence that could lead to arrests.
This story was originally published January 21, 2020 at 5:00 AM.
