Earnest Lee Cunningham Jr., 26, was shot and killed in Bessemer, Alabama, on the evening of Thursday, April 2, 2020. Officers responding about 9 p.m. to the 400 block of 8th Avenue North found Cunningham inside a vehicle with at least one gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Initial days of the investigation yielded few public details as police worked to reconstruct events.

On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, Bessemer police announced arrests in the case. Two men, identified as 21-year-old Jeremiah Tyshawn Williams and 25-year-old Devarious Rashad Moore, were charged with murder. Investigators described the apparent motive as a robbery during which the fatal shots were fired; both suspects were booked into the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $100,000 each.

Does anyone in the Bessemer area have information about Cunningham’s movements that night or about the robbery that led to his death?