On the evening of October 14, 2016, 34-year-old Jimmy Frizzle was shot and killed in the 6700 block of Myron Massey Boulevard in Fairfield, Alabama, near the Miles College campus. Two gunshots were heard in a nearby park about an hour and a half before a planned prayer vigil about local violence; Frizzle’s nephew Jahmal Thomas discovered him after rushing to the scene. Fairfield Police Chief Nick Dyer described the shooting as part of a troubling national trend and urged community action as authorities began a search for the person responsible.

Frizzle was born in North Carolina and had lived in the Birmingham area since 1984. He is survived by his daughter Daija Adams and his parents Carolyn Taylor and Jimmy Long Frizzle, Sr., and is remembered as someone committed to his faith from a young age.

Did anyone in the Fairfield area witness the shooting or have information about that evening?