Derrick Nichols, a 17-year-old Black male from Selma, Alabama, was reported missing on or after October 28, 2016, when relatives said they had not seen or heard from him for nearly a week. On November 3 a landowner found a body in a wooded area off River Road; Selma police confirmed the next day that it was Nichols. Some memorial records list November 3, 2016, as his date of death, though news reports and gun-violence memorials tied the public confirmation to November 4.

What began as a missing-teen search became a homicide investigation that left Nichols’s family without closure.

If anyone knew Derrick, saw him around late October 2016, or has information about the woods off River Road, please share what is known.