On October 8, 2022, police responded around 6:15 p.m. to a home in the 3000 block of 20th Street in West Tuscaloosa after reports of gunfire. Officers found two men inside with gunshot wounds; both were taken to DCH Regional Medical Center. Sixty-six-year-old Mitchell Lewis died of his injuries at the hospital. The other victim, 64-year-old Kenny Walker, died the next morning.

Investigators treated the incident as a family-related shooting and identified 30-year-old Devin Martez Quinzy as a suspect. Quinzy reportedly fled in a vehicle belonging to one of the victims, then contacted police by phone and surrendered in the parking lot of a business on Highway 69 South. He was initially charged with murder and attempted murder; after Walker’s death the charges were upgraded to capital murder and he was held without bond.

If anyone knew Lewis or has information about what happened at the 20th Street residence that evening, please come forward.