Jimmie Lee Rembert Jr., a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Uniontown, Alabama on June 2, 2021. According to court documents, he had been with two acquaintances — 17-year-old Aldonte Jaquan Banks and Johnnie Robertson Jr. — and the three were reportedly firing their handguns into the air and comparing loudness when Banks allegedly aimed a 9mm pistol at Rembert and fired multiple times.

Banks was arrested and charged with murder in the days after the killing and held at the Perry County Jail. In early September he escaped the facility twice within a week; after the first escape he was recaptured, and after a second escape on September 6, 2021 he surrendered later that day near Uniontown with assistance from his mother and an aunt and was returned to custody.

What details about that night or about Rembert’s life might help explain how the situation escalated to lethal violence?