On the evening of May 11, 2025, gunfire in Sylacauga, Alabama, left 48-year-old Christopher Cornell Keith of Childersburg fatally wounded and a 29-year-old man, Sylavonta Dvon Mays, injured. Calls to Talladega County E-911 began around 4:50 p.m. reporting shots near E 5th Street and soon after a report that a vehicle had been shot into on Curran Street. Officers found both men inside a vehicle on Curran Street with gunshot wounds; they were taken to Coosa Valley Medical Center. Keith was later transferred to UAB Hospital and died on May 12, 2025. Mays was treated and released.

Investigators recovered more than 20 shell casings at the scene and say both a pistol and a rifle were used, and that the vehicle was repeatedly fired on while traveling along E 5th Street. The Sylacauga Police Department and the Talladega County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force opened a homicide investigation. No arrests or suspect names have been announced.

Does anyone have information about movements on E 5th Street or Curran Street that Sunday afternoon?