Horace Eugene Sellers III, 41, known as Bubba, was shot in the lower back in the early morning hours of August 7, 2024, in Grand Bay, Alabama. He was riding in a vehicle with his girlfriend when someone opened fire; the pair drove to a Chevron on Highway 90 seeking help but Sellers died of his wounds and his girlfriend survived with a bullet still lodged in her neck that surgeons deemed too dangerous to remove.

The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office quickly identified three suspects. Thomas Nickols Marshall, 35, and Jessie Darrell Brown, 32, were arrested in Mississippi soon after the shooting. Investigators say Marshall fired the fatal shots. Britney Mentor was arrested weeks later and is accused of providing the gun and hiding it afterward. All three face murder and attempted murder charges.

At a preliminary hearing a judge found sufficient evidence to send the cases against Marshall and Mentor to a grand jury. The surviving victim testified about the attack and a detective said surveillance footage from a residence showed a man believed to be Marshall exiting a truck and firing into Sellers’s vehicle. Jessie Brown’s preliminary hearing is scheduled separately.

If anyone knew Horace Sellers, his movements that night, or has information about the people involved, please come forward.