Solomon Hughes Jr., a 26-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Montgomery, Alabama on May 9, 2021; an obituary lists his date of death as May 10, 2021 and notes funeral services were planned later that month. The specific circumstances of the shooting have not been released publicly.

The Montgomery Police Department opened a homicide investigation, but there have been no public announcements about arrests or named suspects in the case. Hughes’ death is listed among many unsolved homicides in Montgomery, a city whose cold cases disproportionately involve Black men aged 20 to 29.

Did anyone in Montgomery know Solomon Hughes Jr. or have information that could help answer what happened?