Cedric Garrett, 40, allegedly killed his 53-year-old wife, Valtricia Garrett, before going live on Facebook
Cedric Garrett, 40, allegedly killed his 53-year-old wife, Valtricia Garrett, before going live on Facebook and later taking his own life during a police standoff in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Police say officers attempted to negotiate with him for approximately 20 minutes before he turned the gun on himself.
A family is grieving after police say a Vicksburg man killed his wife before taking his own life Friday morning.
Police identified the couple as 53-year-old Valtricia Garrett and her husband, 40-year-old Cedric Garrett.
Valtricia’s brother, Andre Moore, said he is struggling to process her death.
“There’s no words that I can possibly say for the loss of my sister,” Moore said.
Moore said he received a disturbing phone call early Friday about a Facebook Live video posted by Cedric Garrett.
“I got a phone call from my friend saying that her husband was online saying that he had killed my sister,” Moore said.
Police said they received a call around 9 a.m. and responded to the area behind the Vicksburg Convalescent Home for a welfare check after reports that Cedric Garrett was inside a vehicle with a gun.
Officers tried to persuade him to put down the weapon and surrender, Vicksburg Police Chief Larry Burns said.
“I want to say we probably spoke with him upward of 20 minutes, and it seemed as if it was going in that direction. And then all of a sudden, he took the weapon and took his life,” Burns said.
Burns said the couple had a documented history of domestic violence.
“And I do know that we arrested the male in 2017 and 2018 for domestic violence. And then in 2026, as recent as a couple of months ago, there was a report filed relative to domestic violence,” Burns said.
