On the morning of Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 38-year-old Alisa Shaquita Andrell Patton of Opelika, Alabama, was shot and killed inside a white Ford Explorer at the Arbor Place Apartments on Fox Run Parkway. Officers responded around 10:56 a.m. to reports of an active shooter; Patton was found in the vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at 11:05 a.m. by the Lee County Coroner. The Explorer had more than eight gunshot defects and appeared to have crashed into an apartment building.

A 27-year-old suspect, Marc John Love, was detained at the scene after an Alabama Law Enforcement Agency state trooper nearby heard the gunfire and intervened. Love was initially charged with murder; charges were later upgraded to capital murder of a person inside a vehicle, and he also faces a count of certain persons forbidden to possess a firearm. Opelika detectives continue to investigate motive and circumstances while Patton’s family, including her six children, prepared for funeral services in early April.

If anyone witnessed the incident at Arbor Place Apartments or has information about what led to this shooting, please share what you know.