Marlo Demetrius Derks was shot in the leg in the early hours of April 14, 2015, on the 2000 block of Eagle Drive in Mobile, Alabama. First responders arrived about 2:20 a.m.; he was taken to Springhill Medical Center by Mobile Fire Rescue but died of his wounds at the hospital.

Mobile Police Department homicide detectives moved quickly. On April 15, 2015, they questioned and then arrested 20-year-old Irie Pickett, charging Pickett with Manslaughter in connection with Derks’ death. The case was recorded as the city’s sixth homicide of 2015.

Whoever knew Marlo or was in that neighborhood the night of April 14, 2015, is asked to come forward with any information.