James Tyrese ’Tee’ LaShawn Townsend was 15 and a student at Mae C. Jemison High School when he was shot inside a Taco Bell on North Memorial Parkway in Huntsville on a Sunday night in March 2017. He was waiting in line when someone approached him, pulled out a gun, and shot him. Townsend was taken to a local hospital in serious condition and died on Thursday, March 23, 2017.

Investigators describe the shooting as retaliation linked to a prior incident: in August 2015 the person later accused of killing Townsend had been the victim of a shooting, and Townsend had been charged then with first-degree assault. Shortly after the Taco Bell shooting, 19-year-old Donovan Little of Huntsville turned himself in to police; the charge against him was upgraded from attempted murder to murder and he was held in the Madison County Jail.

If anyone has information about Townsend, the events at the Taco Bell that night, or the earlier 2015 incident, please share what you know.