Lonnie Rayford Jr. was 48 when he was shot and killed in Mobile, Alabama on June 2, 2016. Police say the violence began with a verbal altercation near Board Street and Springhill Avenue involving Rayford and a small group of unidentified females. During the dispute, one of the females, who was armed with a handgun, shot Rayford. He was later found in the backseat of a vehicle with a gunshot wound and Mobile Fire-Rescue personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Mobile Police Department continued investigating through the summer and fall of 2016. In October the case was listed among several unsolved homicides and a $5,000 reward was offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The investigation remains open and no arrests had been publicly announced as of late 2016.

If anyone has information about the people involved that night near Board Street and Springhill Avenue, please come forward.