Last week, a member of the Mississippi Coalition Against Domestic Violence read the names of men, women and children lost to domestic violence during a somber vigil at the Mississippi Museum of Art. Included was the name of Carlos Collins, a nurse that was shot and killed by an ex-boyfriend in 2024.
Collins had previously filed multiple protective orders against his ex, a former police officer. Collins’s mother, Ashla Hudson, is still grieving.
“I want to pick up the phone and call him and tell him about, oh, we got a new grandbaby, I got a new,” she said, trailing off. “But I can’t do that anymore. It’s really hard, but I’m going to get through it and we’re going to get justice for him.”
Hudson says she’s anxious about the outcome of the criminal case involving her son’s murder. She’s comforted by Tara Gandy, a mother who watched as her daughter’s killer was found guilty of capital murder in May…