Darrell Rudolph was 33 when he was found unresponsive and later pronounced dead on the street in the 500 block of Rosa Parks Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, in the early morning of September 19, 2018. Emergency crews were called about 5:45 a.m.; initial public reports described a shooting and the Montgomery police opened a homicide investigation. Later reporting tied the death to a fatal stabbing, indicating some early details were clarified as detectives developed the evidence.

Investigators focused on two people Rudolph had recently come to know, Mitchell Call and Abigail Peace, both from Kingsport, Tennessee. Authorities said Call and Peace were identified as suspects; they were arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, by federal and local task force officers on September 26, 2018, extradited to Montgomery on October 13, and each charged with murder and held under $150,000 bond.

Many questions remain about why Rudolph was in Montgomery and what led to the fatal encounter with acquaintances from another state. Anyone with information about Rudolph’s final days or his contacts in Tennessee is asked to come forward.