On the evening of April 8, 2023, Montraze Khalil Slater, 43, was sitting in a vehicle on the 1800 block of Brownlee Street in Mobile when occupants of another vehicle opened fire at about 9:30 p.m. Slater and a second man were both struck and taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Slater died of his wounds the next day, April 9, 2023; the other victim survived and was reported in stable condition.

Slater was described as an active community member involved in outreach programs and remembered for an engaging personality. Investigators identified a 37-year-old suspect, Joseph Walker. Officers later found Walker deceased from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound in a vehicle on Reynolds Avenue, leaving the case without an alive suspect.

Are there details about Montraze’s outreach work or the events on Brownlee Street that anyone can share?