On January 5, 2025, at about 11 p.m., Greenville Police responded to a shooting on the 900 block of South Shelby and found 54-year-old Albert Davis Jr. in his vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Delta Health Systems and later pronounced dead. This was recorded as the community’s first homicide of the year.

Funeral services were held January 25, 2025, at Grace Outreach Bible Church in Greenville, and burial followed at Lakewood Cemetery.

Anyone with information about the shooting or who was in that neighborhood that night is asked to come forward.