PRESS RELEASE
OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY
TENTH CIRCUIT COURT DISTRICT
CLARKE, KEMPER, LAUDERDALE, & WAYNE COUNTIES
District Attorney Kassie Coleman announced today that Brandon Dean, 34, was sentenced by Circuit Court
Judge Charles Wright to a term of Life in the custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. At the
conclusion of a three-day trial, a Lauderdale County jury convicted him for murdering Quadarius Jevon
Draeshawn Trotter, on July 26, 2021.
Dean was arrested on the night of the murder. He was indicted in September 2022 for First Degree Murder.
Video surveillance captured the shooting. The Meridian Police Department investigated the case. The case was
prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Tommy Whitfield and Brennan Ward.
