Xavier Smith, 35, was wounded in a deadly shooting that began during an altercation inside a business on the 3400 block of McGehee Road in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early hours of March 9, 2019. He walked into Baptist Medical Center South about 1:15 a.m. as a gunshot victim and initially described the shooter only as an unknown subject. Investigators worked backward from the hospital to reconstruct the events inside the business.

Smith remained hospitalized for days before he was pronounced dead from his wounds on March 22, 2019, at which point the probe became a homicide investigation. Police later identified a suspect, Quartese Wright, 31, who was taken into custody and charged with murder and held on $150,000 bond. Many details about what happened inside the business have not been released and appear known mainly to those present when the argument turned violent.

If anyone was at the scene that night or has information about the dispute inside the business, please come forward.