On the night of Tuesday, March 23, 2021, a mass shooting outside a residence on 1st Street Southwest in Aliceville, Alabama, left 18-year-old Lacurtiseous Demar Peebles dead. The attack occurred just after 11:20 p.m.; bullets tore through the scene and two other people were wounded. Another 18-year-old, JaQuawn Wilder, was also killed in the same incident.

Family members gathered at the scene in the hours after the shooting. Peebles’s grandmother, Mattie Ball, sang gospel songs near where he fell, and his aunt, Jossie Guyton, spoke of the family’s shock and pain. Aliceville Police Chief Tonnie Jones described the event as sheer terror in a town where such violence is rare.

The Aliceville Police Department and the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation, but a motive has not been released and no arrests have been announced. If anyone in Aliceville that night saw or heard anything related to this shooting, please share what is known with investigators.