OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- In what police are describing as a “domestic-related event,” a 34-year-old Ocean Springs man was shot and killed behind a local bar, with another Ocean Springs resident charged with his murder.
According to Ocean Springs police Capt. Ryan LeMaire, officers responded to a report of a shooting in the parking lot of KahunaOS Bar & Grill on U.S. 90 west. Arriving at the scene, officers discovered the body of a white male, dead at the scene.
Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd on Friday afternoon identified the victim as 34-year-old Chase Lee Galloway of Ocean Springs and confirmed the preliminary cause of death as a gunshot wound. An autopsy is scheduled for early next week.
During initial investigation, witnesses and others provided tips which led detectives to obtaining a warrant for the arrest of William Burnett Oliver, 32, also of Ocean Springs, who was taken into custody midafternoon Friday without incident.
Oliver was booked at the Ocean Springs Police Department on a charge of murder and transported to the Jackson County Adult Detention Center, where he remains without bond pending an initial court appearance.
Anyone with any information related to this case is asked to contact the Ocean Springs Police Department at 228-875-2211 or Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers at 877-787-5898 or online at www.p3tips.com/523.
This was the second shooting outside an Ocean Springs bar in less than two weeks. On Nov. 12, two men were sent to the hospital with gunshot wounds after a 21-year-old Gulfport man fired shots outside the Ocean Springs Daquiri Co. on Washington Avenue after an earlier dispute with the men inside the bar.
Additionally, this is not the first shooting death in the parking lot of Kahuna’s.
In September 2018, 25-year-old Troy Taylor of Ocean Springs died in the same parking lot after being shot multiple times. Roughly two weeks later, Deshaude Lakeith Jones was taken into custody in Lake County, Ill., and extradited back to Ocean Springs, where he was ultimately indicted for murder by a Jackson County Grand Jury.
In May of this year, a four-day trial ended with a jury finding Jones, a career criminal, guilty of murder and he was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
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