On Thursday, February 24, 2022, 26-year-old Rodney Tavaras Pettaway Jr. of Millbrook, Alabama, was found fatally shot. The Millbrook Police Department opened an investigation into the killing and, according to the department’s timeline, obtained an arrest warrant the next day.

On Friday, February 25, 2022, investigators charged 23-year-old Jamiah Marquis Burke of Millbrook with Pettaway’s murder. Burke was already in the Elmore County Jail on unrelated charges when the warrant was served; a $250,000 bond was set after the homicide charge. The case remains pending in the criminal justice system.

Did anyone in Millbrook have information about Pettaway’s last known movements or who might have been involved?