Seventeen-year-old Timothy Crawford Jr., known to family as TJ, was shot and killed on Rexford Road in Montgomery, Alabama on Wednesday evening, December 27, 2023. A student at Carver High School, Crawford was remembered by relatives as humble, respectful, loving, and athletic, with ambitions of becoming a barber.

The Montgomery Police Department investigated the fatal shooting and arrested a 14-year-old who was charged with capital murder; investigators have not publicly disclosed a motive. Crawford’s death compounded his family’s grief after the loss of his stepbrother to gun violence the previous year, and community leaders including the mayor and the superintendent of Montgomery Public Schools issued statements in response.

If anyone has information about what happened on Rexford Road that night, please share it with the Montgomery Police Department.