On the evening of Monday, April 20, 2015, 23-year-old Jawan Antonio Woods of Birmingham, Alabama, was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a bullet-riddled car that had struck a utility pole in the 700 block of Second Avenue North. Birmingham police were dispatched around 8 p.m. after reports of a crash; paramedics determined Woods had at least one gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators concluded the shooting likely occurred a short distance away near Ninth Street and Second Avenue North. Evidence at the scene suggested another vehicle pulled alongside Woods’s car and an occupant opened fire, after which Woods lost control and crashed.

Within a week police developed a suspect: 28-year-old Mario Claiborne Patterson was taken into custody and charged with capital murder while already jailed on unrelated charges, with bond set at $250,000.

If anyone saw the vehicles or events near Ninth Street and Second Avenue North that night, or has information about Woods, please come forward.