On the late afternoon of August 1, 2020, 27-year-old Marquette Milous Carter was shot during an argument that broke out at a dice game in the 900 block of 45th Street North in Birmingham, Alabama. Officers from the South Precinct responded to a call of a person shot at about 5:33 p.m. and found Carter with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to UAB Hospital and died of his injuries.

Birmingham police said the preliminary investigation tied the shooting to the altercation at the dice game. Carter’s family suffered another loss shortly after his death when his 71-year-old grandmother, Javanna Midge Cotton Owens, was fatally shot on September 13, 2020; an arrest was later made in her case, but it did not produce leads in Carter’s killing.

Anyone with information about the August 1 shooting is asked to come forward.