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Carlos Bates, 39, was found dead from a gunshot wound on the evening of Sunday, October 15, 2017, in the 3700 block of Lower Wetumpka Road in Montgomery, Alabama. Police and fire medics discovered him around 7 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Within days investigators identified a suspect. Twenty-year-old Lamontt Kelly was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force and charged with one count of capital murder. Authorities said the shooting was not random but grew out of a prior altercation between Kelly and Bates. Kelly was held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility and was initially denied bond. A grand jury returned a formal indictment on the capital murder charge in December 2017.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the night of October 15, 2017, or who knew Bates and can share information about the prior dispute?