On the evening of Tuesday, October 19, 2021, gunfire rang out near Michigan Avenue and Melrose Street in Mobile, Alabama. Responding officers found a car had crashed into a church on the 1200 block of Rev. A.T. Days Street; the driver, 53-year-old Samuel Bishop, was inside and had died from an apparent gunshot wound rather than the crash itself. The Mobile Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Detectives identified a suspect within days and sought warrants for 28-year-old David Hardy. On Thursday, October 21, 2021, U.S. Marshals and the Mobile Police Department K9 Unit located and arrested Hardy. He was taken to the Metro Jail and charged with murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. The community was left to mourn while the legal process proceeded.

If anyone witnessed the shooting, the crash, or Bishop’s movements that evening, please share what was seen.