On the afternoon of March 12, 2020, a shooting near the intersection of Cedar Pointe Road and Dauphin Island Parkway in Mobile, Alabama left 42-year-old Jeffery Jason Himes with a fatal gunshot wound. Officers who responded to a report of a person shot at about 5:20 p.m. found Himes and he was taken to the University of South Alabama hospital, where he died later that day.

A Mobile native and 1996 graduate of Mary G. Montgomery High School, Himes was a self-taught machinist and a father described as devoted to his children. Detectives investigating the case identified 47-year-old John David Buck Jr. as a suspect and detained him in connection with the shooting. By July 1, 2020, a grand jury returned an indictment for murder against Buck, and U.S. Marshals subsequently located and arrested him.

Anyone with information about the events near Cedar Pointe Road and Dauphin Island Parkway on March 12, 2020 who can help fill gaps in the timeline is asked to come forward.