Keyonte Mingo was 17 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of July 5, 2026, in Mobile, Alabama. He was a passenger in a vehicle near the intersection of Bayou Street and Government Street when gunfire struck the car and fatally wounded him. No one else in the vehicle was physically harmed. The shooting occurred the day after his seventeenth birthday.

Family members remember Mingo as an innocent young man who was full of life and the life of the party. The Mobile Police Department investigated the case and arrested 19-year-old Demetrius Jackson, who was charged with murder and arraigned, entering a plea of not guilty. The motive has not been released and the case is in its early legal stages with a preliminary hearing scheduled for August 2026.

If anyone saw activity near Bayou and Government streets that morning or has information about the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.