Cedric Wayne Spencer, 61, of Birmingham, Alabama, was found unresponsive and pronounced dead at the scene on April 18, 2021, after violence outside a business on Pawnee Village Road in east Jefferson County. Deputies were called that Sunday morning around 8:15 a.m. and investigators later called on surveillance video and witness accounts to reconstruct the prior night’s events.

Those accounts describe an argument between Spencer and a woman identified as Tomeka Sims of Fairfield. Authorities say Sims got into Spencer’s vehicle while he was still caught on or connected to the car, dragging him until he fell. Video and investigative descriptions say Sims then returned in the vehicle and rolled over him multiple times; at one point Spencer apparently managed to roll beneath the bed of a tractor-trailer as if trying to shield himself. The Jefferson County Coroner attributed the death to blunt-force injuries consistent with being struck multiple times by a vehicle.

Detectives identified Sims as the suspect and arrested and booked her into the Jefferson County Jail on a murder charge, with early reports listing a $50,000 bond. Officials said Spencer and Sims had been in a long-term dating relationship and named no additional suspects.

Did anyone in east Jefferson County see or record anything that night that could add to the timeline?