I do wonder what the motive was. To shoot and also stab someone shows extreme anger toward them. I wonder if they knew each other previously.

Desmond Deshun Dirden, 43, was found dead on a sidewalk at the Patterson Street Apartments in Atmore, Alabama, in the early morning of April 25, 2020. Police responded to a 911 call around 1:24 a.m. and discovered Dirden with both a gunshot and a stab wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene before medics could render aid.

The Atmore Police Department opened an investigation that led to the identification of a suspect. On June 4, 2020, investigators arrested 38-year-old Antonio Albert Crenshaw during a traffic stop for a suspected DUI and charged him with Dirden’s murder. Crenshaw was also charged with being a violent felon in possession of a handgun and second-degree theft of property and was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center. Authorities did not publicly disclose a motive.

If anyone has information about Dirden, the events at Patterson Street Apartments that night, or the arrest, please share what is known.