Myron King was found dead in the front yard of a home on the 7200 block of 3rd Street in Mobile, Alabama, in the early morning hours of May 9, 2020. A call came in at about 2:42 a.m.; authorities pronounced the 50-year-old man deceased at the scene. The case was one of five homicides in Mobile that violent weekend.

Within days the Mobile Police Department identified and arrested a suspect. Joaquin Jones, 27, was taken into custody and charged with King’s murder. Authorities did not immediately release the circumstances that led to the confrontation between King and Jones, and the community has been left with many unanswered questions.

If anyone witnessed activity on the 7200 block of 3rd Street that night or has information about what happened to Myron King, please come forward.