Tavon Holder was killed on Thanksgiving night 2020 in Theodore, Alabama, on what was supposed to be his 19th birthday. Holder, a Black male who had recently enlisted in the Army, arranged to meet two teenagers at the Bennett’s Landing apartments for a marijuana sale reportedly worth $35. An investigator testified that an argument over the marijuana escalated and led to the shooting. Seventeen-year-old Anthony Mcpherson is alleged to have fired the shot, and 17-year-old Lucy Rutledge is reported to have driven the vehicle used to flee the scene.

Both Mcpherson and Rutledge were arrested and charged with intentional murder and were ordered to be tried as adults. At a preliminary hearing, Mcpherson allegedly admitted to the shooting; both teens pleaded not guilty. Bond was set at $125,000 for Mcpherson and $75,000 for Rutledge, and both were released on bond. As of early 2021 the case had been bound over to a grand jury; no trial verdicts, pleas, or convictions are described.

Did anyone in Theodore or at Bennett’s Landing see or hear anything about that meeting or the vehicle that left the complex that night?