Charles David Thomas was 20 when he was killed in Birmingham, Alabama, on August 2, 2014, in what police described as a gun battle in Jefferson County. Authorities opened an investigation after the shooting; a man named Carlos Heard was later charged with murder in connection with Thomas’s death.

Funeral services were held Saturday, August 9, 2014, at Bethel AME Church in Brighton, and Thomas was buried in Brighton Cemetery.

Does anyone who was in the Brighton or Jefferson County area that weekend have information about what happened that night?