Telik Ryheem Nevels, a 21-year-old Black man from Bessemer, was shot and killed on September 24, 2023, on the 2600 block of Seventh Avenue North. Reporting and the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office described his death as an apparent assault, framing it as a fatal attack rather than an accident or unexplained death.

Family and memorial accounts say Nevels was sitting in his car in front of a relative’s house when he was killed. His grandmother’s fundraiser described him as a Bessemer City High School graduate who mostly kept to a routine of work, home, and family, and said he was loved by many and not known for getting involved in negative activity. Relatives are depicted as trying to process the suddenness of his loss.

Does anyone have information about what happened that night or about the investigation that followed?