Tykendrick Barnett, 22, was found dead of a gunshot wound in an empty lot on the 2400 block of Wiley Street in Mobile, Alabama, on February 7, 2025, around 4:45 p.m. The shooting occurred on his birthday and the Mobile Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Two men, Cedric Maurice Wooten Jr., 22, and Reco Daquon McCants, 25, were arrested and charged with murder; a judge denied bond for both. At a bond hearing it was disclosed Wooten was out on bond on an attempting to elude charge and McCants had a probation hold. McCants’ record also includes a 2021 arrest on multiple charges that were later dropped after a Mobile Police officer failed to appear in court.

Barnett had prior legal trouble as a teenager, pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree assault in a 2019 Mardi Gras shooting that injured a 7-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy; he served two years in jail. He had also been shot in the back in January 2025 in a separate unsolved incident.

If anyone knew Barnett, his movements that week, or has information about either shooting, please come forward.