David Brown, a 43-year-old Black man from Columbus, Georgia, was shot before dawn on Palm Sunday, April 10, 2022, outside his apartment complex at 714 Fort Benning Road near the roundabout. The shooting occurred at about 4 a.m.; Brown was taken to Piedmont Columbus Regional and underwent surgery but was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. on April 11.

Obituaries describe Brown as a Columbus native who worked as a roofer, a reminder that the violence cut across an ordinary life. Homicide detectives focused on a suspect quickly: Donnell Russell was arrested on April 19, 2022, after investigators obtained a murder warrant and carried it out with help from the Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Task Force. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for April 21 in Muscogee County Recorder’s Court.

What details about the early-morning shooting are still unclear to the public, and does anyone have information about Brown’s movements that night?