Williams ex rel. Raymond v. Wal-Mart Stores East, L.P.

WALLER, Chief Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Twenty-year-old Xavier Zurndell Moore pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the shooting death of his mother’s live-in boyfriend, Robert Williams. The fatal bullet had been purchased from the Walmart in Indianola, Mississippi. Robert’s daughter and his estate filed a wrongful-death suit against Walmart, alleging that it unlawfully had sold ammunition to the underage Moore and that the sale proximately had caused Robert’s death. The trial court granted summary judgment for Wal-mart based on this Court’s decision in Robinson v. Howard Brothers of Jackson,…