Thaddeus Stewart was fatally shot in Huntsville, Alabama, on the evening of his 33rd birthday, Monday, March 24, 2025. The shooting happened in the front yard of a Turf Avenue residence while Stewart, a Black man known to some as Jeff Roy, was visiting friends to celebrate. Officers arrived after reports of an active shooting around 9 p.m.; Stewart was found with a gunshot wound, taken to a local hospital, and later died.

The Huntsville Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit opened an investigation. Early findings indicate Stewart was involved in an altercation with another individual shortly before gunfire. Investigators identified Marvin Dequent Kendall of Huntsville as a person of interest; Kendall was located by the Gulf Coast Regional Task Force, questioned by the Huntsville Police Criminal Investigation Division, arrested, and charged with Stewart’s murder. He was booked into the Madison County Jail and initially held without bond; bond was later set at $75,000.

Stewart’s family remembered him as a loving and devoted father and husband, a Butler High School graduate who participated in JROTC and sports, and a mechanic who ran Jeff’s All Kinds of Work and often helped people who couldn’t afford repairs. If anyone witnessed the March 24 incident on Turf Avenue or has information about the altercation that led to the shooting, please come forward.