Cameron Cullen was 20 and an electrical engineering student at Alabama A&M University when he was shot during an altercation in Huntsville on the night of March 26, 2017. Two people were seriously injured in the incident; Cullen died of his wounds and his official date of death is March 31, 2017.

Authorities treated the shooting as both a homicide and an apparent robbery. A teenager from Birmingham was arrested and charged with murder in the days after the attack, but few details about the suspect or a clear motive have been released publicly.

Cullen was remembered as kind and well liked, a young man described as having a promising future.