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HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. -- As the hours ticked by, investigators were still hard at work trying to piece together who would kill 18-year-old Melvin Brown.

He was discovered inside a white BMW, abandoned on a rural Marshall County road, with a gunshot wound to the head, sources told WREG.

"They say he gone...gone to heaven."

His mother Sandra stood with friends and family on the other side of town where she's been trying to find her son since he disappeared late Tuesday night.

"I been crying all night. Last night for four hours, all day today."

Reporter: "How are you now?"

"I feel better. I got closure," she replied.

According to authorities, Brown was sitting alone in the passenger seat of his friend's car in a driveway. The friend, who had stepped inside the home, told police he heard a gunshot and ran back outside.

"He saw a glimpse of an unidentified black male subject with a skull cap on. He said he had a black and mild in his mouth."

The suspect sped off in the car, reportedly taking Brown with him.

His family and friends never heard from him again.

Now police are on the hunt for the man along with those who were with Brown last night- both at the home and on a trip to the mall in Southaven.

"There’s still someone out here who did this and I want them to go down. Whoever, not to be rude... you took him down. I want you to go down."

If you can help authorities in this case, call police.

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