In the early morning hours of Thursday, February 4, 2021, Michael Merrio Donofrio, 56, was found lying in the roadway in the 4200 block of Chalet Circle in Huntsville, Alabama. Officers who responded just after 7 a.m. to a shooting call discovered Donofrio deceased from what appeared to be one or more gunshot wounds; the official cause of death was pending further investigation.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect. Twenty-four-year-old Martinez Monte Lyles surrendered at a MAPCO on Memorial Parkway and University Drive and was charged with murder and booked into the Madison County Jail. Authorities say the shooting stemmed from a domestic dispute involving family members of both the victim and the suspect, though the specific nature of that disagreement has not been made public.

If anyone has information about the events on Chalet Circle that morning or the dispute that led to this shooting, please share what is known with investigators.