Darrell Hunter Jr, 26, was fatally shot inside a residence on 17th Avenue near Pine Street in Phenix City, Alabama, on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Authorities found Hunter with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:30 p.m. The Phenix City Police Department treated the house as a crime scene and opened a homicide investigation.

Hunter’s body was sent to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science in Montgomery for an autopsy to determine the official cause of death. In the days and weeks after the shooting, no information about suspects, arrests, or a motive has been publicly released and the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened on 17th Avenue that afternoon, please come forward.