On the afternoon of Sunday, June 8, 2025, 36-year-old Arsenio Hawthorne was shot in the 1100 block of Brag Street in Montgomery, Alabama. He was taken to a local hospital but succumbed to his injuries; the Montgomery Police Department opened a homicide investigation. At the time of initial reports, no motive or suspects had been identified and no arrests had been made.

Hawthorne is remembered by family as a beloved son, brother and devoted father to three children. They described him as selfless and committed to his hometown, and said his death compounded grief already felt after the recent loss of another child in the family six months earlier. Educators at an adult education program Hawthorne had recently begun with Valiant Cross Academy and Trenum State College also expressed mourning.

The investigation is ongoing. If anyone has information about the shooting on Brag Street that could help investigators, please contact the Montgomery Police Department.