Christopher Thomas was 26 when he was killed on August 6, 2022, in Montgomery, Alabama. Police found him with a fatal gunshot wound on the 2600 block of Zelda Road near the Ann Street intersection, a stretch of road just west of Interstate 85. Authorities opened a homicide investigation after the daytime shooting.

In the days after the killing, Montgomery police announced two arrests. Jimothy Ford, 39, of Prattville, was charged with murder, taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Task Force and booked into the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $1.5 million bond. Less than two weeks later, John Hollon III, 34, also of Prattville, was charged with murder and held on a $1.5 million bond. Police did not publicly provide a motive, specify the roles the two men were alleged to have played, or release a detailed account of how the confrontation on Zelda Road unfolded.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about what happened on Zelda Road that afternoon, please come forward to investigators.