Philip Ridley Ledet, 54, died on January 25, 2020, in Irvington, Alabama, after a gunshot wound to the head during a social gathering on Ramil Road. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office reported the shooting occurred while a friend, Terry Allen Andre, was handling a firearm and showing it to others; the weapon discharged and struck Ledet. Investigators described the incident as not intentional. Andre was taken into custody and charged with manslaughter and booked into the Mobile County Metro Jail.

The account focuses on a firearm accident at a friendly get-together that proved fatal; authorities characterized the shooting as unintentional but filed manslaughter charges. If anyone attended that gathering or has information about what happened on Ramil Road that night, please share what is known with investigators.