On August 5, 2021, officers with the Oxford Police Department stopped a vehicle on US 278 East (Highway 6) for a traffic violation. The passenger was identified as Terry Flowers, 22, of Oxford, Mississippi. Flowers was arrested for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Flowers was given a $10,000 bond by a Lafayette County Justice Court judge, and a hold was placed on him by the Mississippi Department of Corrections due to Flowers being on parole.