On the morning of Saturday, January 14, 2023, Robin Durell Braswell, 31 and known as Boogie, was found with a gunshot wound to the chest near Coosa County Road 52 in Goodwater, Alabama. The Goodwater Police Department arrived after a call for assistance around 2:40 a.m.; law enforcement and medical personnel were already at the scene. Braswell was pronounced dead there, and the Coosa County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into the shooting.

Within days investigators arrested a suspect. On January 25, 2023, 21-year-old Lei-Keston Demicha Sharoy Ford of Alexander City was taken into custody and charged with murder and held at the Coosa County Jail. Authorities have not released the motive for the killing. If anyone knew Robin, his movements that night, or has information about the shooting, please come forward.