On the night of Sunday, November 10, 2013, officers in Florence, Alabama, responded to reports of shots fired near Marion Avenue and Chisholm Road. They found a vehicle with the body of Eric Monte Watkins, a 32-year-old Black man from Muscle Shoals, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives treated the killing as not random and suspected an acquaintance was responsible.

Investigators worked for months before identifying an alleged shooter as Justin Antonio Butler, known as Poppa Molly, by April 2015. Authorities said the likely motive was a robbery tied to drugs and money. Butler was in custody in South Carolina on an unrelated murder charge; a Lauderdale County grand jury later indicted him in Alabama. Butler pleaded guilty in late 2018 and was sentenced in January 2019 to 20 years, to run concurrently with his South Carolina term.

Did anyone in Florence at the time remember Watkins or have information about the area that night?