Obie Hillery, 39, was shot multiple times and killed on Sibert Street in Prichard on the night of July 6, 2017. He had stopped to see a friend around 11:30 p.m., and family say he was struck eight times. Wounded, he ran to the back of a parking lot near Greer’s supermarket and across from Vigor High School, where he collapsed and later died.

Hillery worked with the family’s concrete pouring business and was described by his sister Erica Coleman as someone who kept to himself and wasn’t known for trouble. Coleman said she believed robbery was the motive based on what Hillery told her before he died. Police treated the incident as a homicide, but investigators had not announced an arrest or identified a suspect.

If anyone was in the Sibert Street or Greer’s supermarket area that night or knows anything about Hillery’s last movements, please come forward with information.