Derrick Anthony Harris, a 44-year-old Black man, was killed in a shooting on Friday, July 24, 2015, in the Prichard area near the intersection of Allenby Street and Birmingham Street. Authorities treated the incident as a homicide and focused on events and possible witnesses in that pocket of streets as the investigation began.

Mary Missionary Methodist Church, followed by burial at Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens. Years after the shooting, Prichard police named Andrea Danielle Thomas as a person of interest and asked the public for help locating her for questioning. No reporting connected to that request described an arrest, formal charges, or a court case at the time those updates were shared.

Are there readers who remember the Allenby and Birmingham area in 2015 or who have information that could help bring more clarity to what happened to Derrick Harris?