Three weeks ago, a Pike County grand jury declined to indict LaCurtis Hackett for the shooting death of another man in McComb. On Friday, Hackett himself was shot to death in Lincoln County by an intruder who kicked in a door and fired several shots.
The DarkHorsePressNow website quoted Lincoln County officials who said Hackett was killed at a friend's home on Mill Creek Lane west of Bogue Chitto.
"Sheriff Steve Rushing said around 5:30 p.m., dispatch received a call of a shooting in a music studio in that residence," the website reported. "Three people had been at the home when the door was kicked in and an assailant allegedly came inside and shot Hackett several times."
Hackett was pronounced dead at King's Daughters Medical Center. Lawmen said the gunman was a black male but had no suspects on Saturday.
Hackett had been charged with murder in the 2020 shooting death of Austin Wanzo, 20, of Summit. The two were in a car near the intersection of Summit Street and Higgins Drive when a semi-automatic handgun fired and killed Wanzo with a shot to his back.
Hackett claimed the shooting was accidental, and the grand jury declined to indict him. McComb police chief Garland Ward noted at the time that the weapon had three different safety devices that should not allow it to misfire.
