Richard Lee Samuels was 29 when he was found dead in Birmingham’s Jones Valley neighborhood on October 1, 2021. He was discovered unresponsive in the parking lot of a Chevron gas station with gunshot wounds; Birmingham police classified the death as a homicide.

Reports give few details about what led to the shooting and do not describe a motive or a timeline of events before the discovery.

If anyone was at the Chevron that evening or saw anything that could help piece together what happened to Richard, please come forward with details.