Neighborhood Still In Shock From Fatal Shooting

LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)- The victim of a fatal Lowndes County shooting has been identified.

Lowndes County Chief Deputy Marc Miley said 26-year old Joshua Kyzer was fatally shot by his father, 55-year old Randall Earl Kyzer.

Shortly before seven P.M.  Saturday night, Lowndes County deputies responded to a domestic disturbance call.

Last night’s shooting leaves a family mourning, and also leaves a neighborhood stunned.

“It’s just something you can’t believe, you don’t really know what to say you know, you can’t believe that something like that would even happen,” Archie Wallace said, who stays in the neighborhood where Saturday’s shooting took place.

Neighbors said this area on Mike Parra road is usually quiet and peaceful.

However on Saturday, it was the exact opposite.

“We were totally shocked you know, at where it was it was and everything, I think the whole neighborhood was in shock about it,” Wallace said.

Archie Wallace stays two doors down from where Saturday night’s shooting took place.

He said last night was an usual scene for the neighborhood.

“Just heard a lot of sirens and you know, a little commotion from down in that area,” Wallace said.

Wallace has lived in this neighborhood for 63 years, and is still in disbelief that something so tragic, happened so close to home.

“I’ve lived here all my life, and you know we’ve never had any problems in the neighborhood or anything,” he said.

And Wallace said a shooting is the last thing he’d think would ever happen.

“Down here where all of this stuff happened, I’ve never seen a sheriff in the driveway there so it’s really a shock to the whole neighborhood, it’s a tragedy,” he said.

And Wallace said the thing that makes the tragedy worse, is the fact that he’s good friends with the victim and the victim’s family.

“There good friends of ours, she visits quite often and you just couldn’t ask for a nicer person and nicer people,” he said.

Wallace said despite Saturday night’s shooting, he remains confident that this area will go back to being the quiet and peaceful neighborhood of old.

“We’ll all get together and return to normal and everything, it may take a while, well with something like that, you don’t forget about it but you know, you’ll have to go on,” Wallace said.

 
Wallace said neighbors in the neighborhood all requested prayer for the victim’s family and their respective churches on Sunday.