On the evening of June 19, 2022, a crawfish boil at a friend’s house on the 1900 block of West Clarke Avenue in Mobile, Alabama, ended in tragedy when 23-year-old Karlos Pettway was shot and killed inside the residence. Mobile Police Department officers arrived at about 4:15 p.m. and found Pettway deceased at the scene. Known to family as Cortez and to friends as BigLo, Pettway graduated from Mattie T. Blount High School and was the father of a young daughter; his family said he was working to turn his life around for his child.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect. Less than a month later, on July 13, 2022, 18-year-old Charvez Green turned himself in and was arrested and charged with Pettway’s murder. Authorities say Green had been waiting inside the house at the crawfish boil before shooting Pettway five times.

If anyone was at that gathering or has information about what led up to the shooting, please share what is known with Mobile police.