William Lewis Foreman, a 67-year-old Black man from Opelika, Alabama, was found dead on the morning of August 31, 2016, along Lee Road 401 in Lee County after a passerby spotted his body. Investigators said he had been dead for hours and an autopsy determined he had been shot multiple times. Foreman’s vehicle was discovered burning the night before at an apartment complex in Columbus, Georgia, linking two scenes across state lines.

Foreman was widely described as an Opelika taxi owner, a familiar figure in the community whose daily work put him in contact with many residents. Authorities later charged two Opelika men, Martez Anthony Simmons and Marquavious Tirrell Howard, in connection with the killing; reports said the case involved robbery and that charges were upgraded to capital murder. Coverage reported that Marquavious Howard was later convicted of robbing and killing Foreman after a capital murder trial in Lee County.

Are there readers who knew Foreman or who remember seeing his vehicle in the Columbus area the night before he was found?