Skyler Williams, 30, was found dead near Major’s Creek Bridge in Stockton, Alabama on the evening of April 29, 2019. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office reported Williams had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and characterized his death as a homicide.

Investigators say the fatal shooting likely occurred at a house in the Daphne/Spanish Fort area rather than at the creek, and evidence at that location suggested a gunfight. A woman who was with Williams at the time told police she had been targeted as well but escaped unharmed; her account became an important part of the investigation.

Within a day, Baldwin County’s Major Crimes Unit arrested 31-year-old Kendrick Kentrell Patrick of Spanish Fort and charged him with murder in Williams’s death, plus attempted murder related to the female witness and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle. Authorities believe the shooting was drug-related.

Anyone who knew Skyler, the woman who escaped, or saw activity near Major’s Creek Bridge or the Daphne/Spanish Fort area around late April 2019 is asked to come forward with information.