On the afternoon of Wednesday, December 8, 2021, officers responded to the 1300 block of Pecan Street in Mobile, Alabama, after reports of gunfire. They found 38-year-old Thaddeus Lee Williams with a fatal gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Mobile Police Department opened a homicide investigation and in the days afterward described the probe as active and ongoing but released no information about suspects or motive.

A separate note in records shows that a Thaddeus Williams, then 37, had been profiled in August 2021 as a fugitive wanted in connection with a late June shooting also on Pecan Street; that report said he was known to the victim in that earlier incident. It is not known whether the earlier shooting is connected to the December killing. The identity of the person who shot and killed Thaddeus Williams has not been publicly resolved.

If anyone has information about Thaddeus Williams, his activities on Pecan Street, or the December 8, 2021 shooting, please share what is known with investigators.