On the night of March 11, 2023, 22-year-old Demetrius Hunter was shot and killed at Brother’s Quick Pick gas station on Meaher Avenue in Prichard, Alabama. First responders found Hunter with a gunshot wound to his torso and he died a short time later. Store security camera footage captured the incident and showed people scattering after a shot was fired.

Investigators worked more than four months before receiving a break when witnesses came forward after the security footage was released to the media. That information led to the arrest of Isaiah Jamal Kelly, who was taken into custody by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and charged with Hunter’s murder. Authorities said Kelly and Hunter were known to each other and had been charged together in a 2018 shooting at the Trinity Gardens parade; those earlier charges were later dropped. Sheriff Paul Burch described Kelly as an extremely violent individual and a known gang member, and Kelly was booked into Mobile Metro Jail on the new charge.

The motive for the gas station shooting has not been disclosed. If anyone has information about Hunter, the people who were at the scene, or what led to the shooting, please share what is known.