A 22-year-old man from Brandon, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged over the mass shooting at the Hideaway nightclub in Jackson that killed two young people and wounded seven others during a Halloween costume party — and on the same day he appeared in court, the City of Jackson announced it is taking legal action against the club itself. Jackson police announced the arrest on Friday, November 6, and Eddie Collier Jr. appeared the same day in Jackson Municipal Court, where he was charged with two counts of capital murder and seven counts of aggravated assault, WJTV and WLBT both reported. The charges are allegations: Collier has not been convicted of anything and is presumed innocent unless and until he is proven guilty in court.
Source: WJTV via 97.7 The Beat of the Capital
According to the Hinds County Detention Center's website, Collier was arrested on Thursday, November 5, 2026, WJTV reported — five days after the shooting. WLBT reported that he appeared in Jackson Municipal Court on Friday, where the charges were formally put to him for allegedly shooting and killing two people and wounding seven others when he opened fire at the Halloween party. No other person has been named as a suspect or charged in the reporting published so far.
Source: WLBT via Brightgram
The night of the shooting: November 1 at the Hideaway
The shooting happened at about 1 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2026, at the Hideaway, in the 5100 block of Interstate 55 North Frontage Road in Jackson, the capital of Mississippi and the county seat of Hinds County. A large crowd of young people had gathered on the dance floor for a Halloween costume party on the night of Saturday, October 31. In its preliminary account, the Jackson Police Department said two unidentified men wearing ski masks entered the club shortly before the gunfire, and at least one of them produced a firearm and began shooting into the crowd, the Mississippi Free Press reported from the department's press release. Police have not stated a motive, and that early account described two masked men — while the charges filed this week name Collier alone.
Source: Mississippi Free Press
Two people were pronounced dead at the scene. They were Lovdai Poindexter, 20, and Jada Henderson, 18. Jackson State University officials told the Clarion Ledger that of the two people killed, only Henderson was a student at the university, although the university's president, Dr. Denise Jones Gregory, said the victims of the shooting included students of the university, WJTV reported. The first reports on the night said six people were taken to local hospitals; the charge sheet lists seven aggravated-assault counts, WLBT reported that seven people were wounded, and at a press conference on Friday, November 6, Police Chief RaShell Brackney also put the wounded total at seven. No source has explained the difference between the early hospital count of six and the later total of seven.
Jackson police say Collier paid a security guard $20 to be allowed into the party with a gun, WLBT reported. That is a police allegation reported by one station, not a finding by any court. Whether the guard faces any charge or action has not been reported, and Awaaz Punjab names no guard because no source has named one.
A university in mourning, and a mayor's promise to close the club
Jackson State University cancelled undergraduate classes for Monday, November 2, and Tuesday, November 3, moved graduate courses online, and held an observance for those affected on the Monday evening on the Administration Tower Lawn. Jackson Mayor John Horhn said in a statement on November 1: “I condemn the senseless violence at the Hideaway nightclub over the weekend that took innocent lives and left others injured. My heart is with the families who are grieving, those recovering from their injuries, and everyone who experienced it. No one should have to fear for their life while enjoying an evening out.” The mayor said the club's operations were suspended and awaiting further investigation, and he directed City Attorney Drew Martin to explore the legal options to have the property declared a public nuisance and pursue its closure, WJTV reported. The club's owner, Weldon Vineyard III, could not be reached for comment at that time, the Mississippi Free Press reported.
Background: the second deadly shooting at the same club in under six months
This was not the first fatal shooting at the Hideaway. On Sunday, May 17, 2026, a 19-year-old, Alana Duck, died after being shot when gunfire erupted in the club's parking lot, and two other people were injured; police later arrested two people in connection with that shooting. At her November 2 press conference, Chief Brackney alleged that an unnamed Memphis promoter involved in organising the Halloween event has now seen three shootings at his events this year, including the May incident at the Hideaway and another at a trail-ride event in June, and said, as the Mississippi Free Press reported it: “We see a pattern there of irresponsibility around their promotion and securing their events.” That is the chief's allegation, not a court finding, and the promoter is not named in the reporting. The Mississippi Free Press also reported the chief saying high-powered rifles were used in the November shooting; that detail has appeared in that outlet's reporting alone so far.
The city sues: Friday's second announcement
On Friday, November 6 — the same day Collier was charged — Mayor Horhn announced that the city is taking legal action against the Hideaway, SuperTalk FM Mississippi reported, under the headline “Our goal is to make this area safer.” What the city's action will formally ask the court to do, and what the club's owners say in response, had not been reported by Saturday morning. The club's operations have remained suspended since the night of the shooting.
What is still not known
Five days of investigation and one arrest have not answered the central questions. Police have given no motive. The early police account described two men in ski masks entering the club, and no reporting so far says whether police are still looking for a second person or whether a second man is thought to have fired. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in the investigation alongside the Jackson Police Department's homicide investigators, according to local television reporting of the chief's briefings. And the difference between the first wounded count of six and the later count of seven remains unexplained in the public record.
What happens next
Collier's case now proceeds from Jackson Municipal Court on the capital murder and aggravated assault charges; no next hearing date, plea or defence statement had been reported by Saturday morning, November 7. Capital murder is the most serious homicide charge in Mississippi and a conviction can carry the death penalty or life in prison — what prosecutors will seek in this case has not been announced, and Awaaz Punjab will not speculate on it. Separately, the city's legal action against the Hideaway will decide whether the venue — already suspended since November 1 — stays closed for good. Awaaz Punjab will update this story as the court case and the city's action move.