Rodarius Williams was a 20-year-old Black man killed by gunfire on July 5, 2014, in Ward, Alabama, after an altercation following a party held at a recreation building. The argument that night turned into shooting; Williams was struck and died. Another young man, Sherman Gillum Jr., was also killed in the same burst of violence, leaving two families grieving the same date for the same sudden reason.

Investigators focused on two suspects, Rickey James Woodard and Jacoby Germayel Culbert, and both were charged with capital murder, a charge that exposed them to the death penalty or life in prison under Alabama law. In December 2014 Culbert escaped from the Choctaw County Jail with two other inmates in a late-night breakout that prompted a multi-county manhunt; he was later recaptured and returned to custody. Culbert later accepted a last-minute plea in 2017 that sent him to prison for 15 years on charges related to the killings.

The deaths of Williams and Gillum remain tied to the same chaotic scene: a rural gathering that collapsed into deadly confrontation. Did anyone who attended that party or who was in the Ward area that night come forward with information?