Derrick Deshona Alford was 36 when he was found fatally shot near the back porch of a home on Odessadale Road in Meriwether County, Georgia, on the evening of February 17, 2015. Emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene after he sustained multiple gunshot wounds. The Meriwether County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation opened a murder investigation.

Investigators pursued the case for more than a year. In February 2016, authorities announced that crime lab evidence developed during a separate murder inquiry into the death of Kenneth Spice had linked that investigation to Alford’s killing. Two brothers, 23-year-old Timique Slaton of Newnan and 20-year-old Alex Everett of Greenville, were charged with murder in Alford’s death; both were already in custody on charges related to Spice’s murder and were being held without bond. The final disposition of the murder charges in Alford’s case is not provided.

If anyone knew Derrick, saw activity on Odessadale Road that night, or has information about these cases, please share what is known with investigators.