Deshawn Tanthony Eatmon, 26, was found dead from gunshot wounds in the early morning of New Year’s Day 2023 at Brookhaven Apartments, 1310 James I. Harrison Jr. Parkway East in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tuscaloosa Police were dispatched around 2:20 a.m.; officers discovered Eatmon deceased at the scene and the Violent Crimes Unit opened a homicide investigation.

Detectives processed the scene and interviewed multiple witnesses, and the inquiry quickly identified a suspect. Thirty-seven-year-old Michael Terrell Charles was taken into custody and charged with one count of murder; he was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail with bond set at $1,000,000. Authorities described this as one of two separate, unrelated homicides in Tuscaloosa over the New Year’s weekend.

Funeral services for Eatmon were held January 14, 2023, at Cornerstone Full Gospel Church, with burial at Springhill Cemetery. If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Deshawn, please share what you know.