On the evening of December 16, 2024, 48-year-old Jermaine Crawford was fatally ambushed after returning to his home on Darwood Drive in Mobile, Alabama. Crawford was not the intended target; the assailants were aiming for his nephew, and Crawford was struck instead. He was reportedly shot 29 times amid a daylong cycle of retaliatory shootings that began with a separate shooting on McKini Street earlier that day.

Mobile Police identified four suspects connected to the ambush. Three men—18-year-old Darius Bell Jr., 19-year-old Antoine Hall, and 21-year-old Dewan Harris—were taken into custody. A fourth man, 22-year-old Raman White, was identified but remained at large and was described as armed and dangerous. Authorities say Bell was allegedly involved in the earlier McKini Street shooting and faces an additional first-degree assault charge.

A Mobile County grand jury returned secret indictments charging all four with capital murder. The District Attorney’s office has said it is considering whether to seek the death penalty; preliminary hearings were skipped in favor of the grand jury process to protect witnesses. Did anyone in Mobile see or hear anything that night on Darwood Drive or McKini Street that could help investigators?