Edward Lamar Davis, 26, was fatally shot during a domestic dispute at a home on Erie Street in the Wylam neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, on July 25, 2017. A verbal argument between Davis and his girlfriend reportedly drew in family members, and a relative summoned Davis’s nephew, 20-year-old Martius Tecumseh Carpenter.

According to police, Carpenter arrived and became involved in the confrontation; a physical fight between uncle and nephew ensued and both men were armed. Officers from the West Precinct found Davis unresponsive inside the house with a gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Carpenter fled briefly but later turned himself in and was taken into custody; the case was presented to a grand jury.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the dispute that night or who saw either man arriving or leaving the Erie Street residence?