Darryl Jermaine Thomas was 21 and lived in Center Point, Alabama. On the morning of Tuesday, May 1, 2018, deputies say he and another man were abducted at gunpoint from an apartment complex and forced into a Chevrolet Avalanche; an Infinity sedan reportedly followed. The other man escaped when the vehicle stopped at a traffic light, but Thomas did not get away.

That afternoon a passerby found a young man shot multiple times on a dirt road near the old Lipscomb dump; the victim was identified as Darryl Thomas. Investigators tied his killing to the previous day’s murder of former Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Carlos Gray, 25, in Clay, and believe Thomas’s death was retaliatory.

Within a day of Thomas’s body being found, four men were arrested and by May 3, 2018 were charged with capital murder and first-degree kidnapping: 24-year-old Cortez Clark-Johnson of Center Point, 22-year-old Myzel Contest Arbuckle of Birmingham, 27-year-old Aeriol Lasean Barbee of Hoover, and 21-year-old Jalen McIntyre of Pinson. The suspects are accused of killing Thomas because they believed he was responsible for Gray’s death.

If anyone knew Darryl, saw him on May 1, 2018, or has information about the abduction or the dirt road where his body was found, please share what is known.