Cedric Mahaffey, 29, a husband, father and jeweler who ran Golds by Ced, was found dead inside a vacant home in a Birmingham neighborhood on Francis Place S.W. after neighbors reported hearing gunshots on the evening of Saturday, August 20, 2022. Authorities determined he had multiple gunshot wounds, including fatal shots to the head and heart, and about a dozen cuts on his arm. His cell phone and wallet remained at the scene, but his white Mercedes Benz was missing.

Investigators say Mahaffey often met clients outside a shop for fittings or deliveries; text messages on his phone arranged a meeting about a grill and led detectives to two suspects, Jayveon Khiry Fleming and Joshua Jermaine Burns. The men fled to California in Mahaffey’s Mercedes and were arrested in Santa Clara County during a separate robbery attempt in October 2022, then extradited to Jefferson County. Fleming and Burns have been charged with capital murder during a robbery. Prosecutors presented testimony linking a phone number used to set the meeting to Fleming, recovered Mahaffey’s car in California with both men’s fingerprints inside, and report a witness who says Burns confessed to shooting Mahaffey on Fleming’s orders. The case was sent to a grand jury and both remain jailed without bond awaiting trial.

Does anyone have information about Mahaffey’s movements that night or recall seeing his white Mercedes in the days after August 20, 2022?