On the afternoon of Sunday, July 26, 2026, 20-year-old Michael Jakwon Hill was found with a fatal gunshot wound in the 4200 block of Amherst Drive in Montgomery, Alabama. Responding police and fire medics pronounced him dead at the scene after being called to report a person shot at about 4:06 p.m. The residential street became the focus of a homicide investigation as detectives processed the scene and sought witnesses and leads.

Investigators described the probe as active and ongoing with few public details released about the circumstances or a motive. On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, authorities arrested 19-year-old Cedric Sentell Nixon and charged him with murder and shooting into an occupied building; he was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Facility held without bond. The legal process was pending and investigators had not announced a motive.

If anyone saw activity on Amherst Drive that afternoon or has information about Hill’s death, please share what you know with Montgomery police.