An 18-year-old named Josiah Sanderson was shot outside Club Allure on Country Club Avenue in Huntsville, Alabama, in the early hours of Saturday, February 16, 2019. Huntsville Police responded around 2:00 a.m.; Sanderson was taken to Huntsville Hospital and pronounced dead. The shooting followed a dispute outside the club.

Officers quickly identified a suspect at the scene. Justen Wherry, 22 at the time, was arrested there, booked into the Madison County Jail, and charged with murder. Investigators recovered the firearm believed to have been used in the incident.

Sanderson’s family and friends were left grieving a life ended at 18. If anyone was at Club Allure that night or has information about the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward to help fill in what happened.