On the evening of April 29, 2021, 50-year-old Michael Cannon was shot and killed on Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Alabama. Cannon, a Black/African American man born June 29, 1970, had worked as a certified welder and had moved to Mobile from Mississippi.

The Mobile Police Department investigated the homicide and identified a person of interest. Early the next morning officers arrested Cyrus King and charged him with Cannon’s murder; King was booked into the Mobile Metro Jail. Authorities have not disclosed what led to the shooting, and no public motive has been reported as the case moves through the legal system.

Cannon is survived by his mother, stepfather, father, a son, a daughter, two grandsons, and other relatives and friends. If anyone has information about what happened that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.