On the evening of April 21, 2025, 20-year-old Landon Lee Phillips was shot and killed inside his car on Trace Lane in Wilmer, Alabama. The shooting followed a heated argument; witnesses said Phillips was arguing with another person when 42-year-old Jason Coington came out of his house with a shotgun and demanded that Phillips leave the property. As Phillips tried to drive away, Coington allegedly fired twice — one shot struck behind a tire and the second was fatal. Phillips’ vehicle then crashed into a nearby home, damaging the house but causing no other injuries.

Neighbors and responding officers found Phillips deceased in the vehicle. He was expecting his first child with his girlfriend, Diana Perrotta, and family described him as kind and close to fishing, riding his dirt bike, and spending time with loved ones. Coington initially left the scene, later returned and spoke with investigators, and was arrested and charged with murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and being a certain person forbidden to carry a firearm. Coington told investigators Phillips carried guns and had once shot up a boat in his backyard, but the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office had no record of that report. A judge later set bond.

Did anyone in Wilmer see or hear anything that night that could help clarify what led to the confrontation?