On the evening of June 30, 2024, a verbal dispute on Meaher Street in Prichard, Alabama, escalated into gunfire. Twenty-two-year-old Asa Jones, a Black man from Mobile, was struck during the exchange and died at the scene. The shooting happened around 6:00 p.m. and was the first of two homicides in the area that night, occurring within hours and a few blocks of one another.

Police say the shootout began after a heated argument between two people. A 16-year-old male from Mobile was arrested and is reported to have fired a weapon during the altercation, but authorities have stated he has not been identified as the person who killed Asa Jones. No primary suspect in Jones’s death has been publicly named, and it is unclear whether additional arrests are expected.

If anyone witnessed the incident on Meaher Street or has information about who fired the fatal shot, please contact the Prichard Police Department.