Sam Brown, a Jackson Police Department spokesman, told the
Clarion Ledger that Brown was shot multiple times and died at the gas station. Four witnesses were questioned as of Wednesday; no suspects had been named, Brown said.
In the hours between graduation and death, Hobbs visited the cemetery where her boyfriend was buried. He had been shot and killed in April. Hobbs left her graduation tassel on his tombstone, the
Washington Postreported.
TRAGIC: Family members shared with us this photo of Kennedy Hobbs. She was killed last night in Jackson, the same day she graduated high school. https://t.co/Lo8lntlG6Rpic.twitter.com/GRLjDPeeD9