On the evening of April 17, 2014, 67-year-old Morris Gene Ervin, a Black/African American man, was found unresponsive inside his home in Carbon Hill, Alabama. He had been fatally shot; the discovery at about 9:30 p.m. prompted a homicide investigation by the Walker County Sheriff’s Office. No immediate suspect or motive was identified.

Ervin was buried with military honors at Carbon Hill Memorial Cemetery. Despite appeals to the public and ongoing investigative efforts, the case grew cold as weeks and then years passed without a credible lead or arrest. The Walker County Sheriff’s Office continues to seek information that could provide answers.

If anyone knew Morris Gene Ervin, his routines, visitors to his home, or saw anything suspicious in Carbon Hill on or around April 17, 2014, please come forward with information.