Keith Hardy, 29, was shot and killed on the morning of May 12, 2021, at the Monarch Ridge apartments on Gallant Drive in Birmingham. Hardy, known as Big Keith, was sitting in his vehicle and talking with someone in a silver SUV when a passenger in that SUV opened fire into his car. After being struck multiple times, Hardy’s vehicle drove through the parking lot, striking several other cars before stopping. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Birmingham Police opened a homicide investigation and determined a dispute occurred before the shooting. Less than two weeks later, 20-year-old Quanderius Sanders was arrested and charged with capital murder; he was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and held without bond. The case moved quickly from the shooting to an arrest, but key questions about motive and the full sequence of events remain.

If anyone saw the interaction at Monarch Ridge that morning or has information about the dispute that preceded the shooting, please come forward.