Rodriquez Harris Jr., 24, was shot and killed on January 7, 2025, at about 12:30 p.m. while seated in his vehicle at a Chevron in the 2600 block of Zelda Road in Montgomery, Alabama. He suffered a fatal gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene; his death was recorded as Montgomery’s first homicide of 2025.

Responding officers from the Montgomery Police Department, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office encountered gunfire as they arrived. One suspect, 24-year-old Ladarius Knight, was captured after fleeing into a nearby McDonald’s. An ALEA Aviation unit helped locate two other suspects in a nearby neighborhood identified as 18-year-old Trawick Demond Smith Jr. and 18-year-old Rodriques Javaun Humphrey. Authorities recovered four firearms, including two illegally modified with machine gun conversion devices.

Smith and Humphrey were charged with capital murder in connection with Harris’s death; Humphrey also faces an attempted murder charge for allegedly firing at a responding officer who was not injured. Knight was charged with being a person forbidden to possess a firearm. No motive has been publicly released. Did anyone in the area see activity at the Chevron around midday on January 7?