MS MS - James Irby, 55, Walls, 4 May 2013

Irby was on his cell phone when he was stopped by a Walls police officer on the corner of Highway 61 and Church Road in Walls, Miss. on May 4, according to WMC-TV. Irby was told to hang up the phone and when he didn't the officer discharged a stun gun, Walls Police Chief Gary Boisseau told Memphis ABC 24. Irby ran into a wheat field with the police chasing him. He disappeared and they never found him. Boisseau also stated that Irby had marijuana and a prescription bottle with illegal narcotics in it.

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James Irby Jr. disappeared during a traffic stop in Walls, Mississippi in May of 2013. He has not been seen since, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is now classifying it as a “cold case.”

His family hasn’t given up, and they still have many questions as to what actually happened. As a result, they released the complete video of the traffic stop to FOX13.

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They watched the 30-odd balloons drift slowly away until they vanished into a clear blue sky, much as James Irby Jr. did three years ago Wednesday.

Eight members of the Memphis man's family gathered alongside U.S. 61 in Walls to remember Irby's still-unexplained disappearance after a traffic stop by local police.

"We just want to ask that somebody out here on this highway that saw what happened to my brother come forward," Viola Johnson, Irby's sister from Clarksdale, Mississippi, said during a brief prayer before she, her children and grandchildren, and Irby's mother, Ethel Allen, released a multicolored bundle of balloons into a flawless sky.

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