On the morning of Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 23-year-old Montgomery resident Nickqurious Hooks was found with a life-threatening gunshot wound on the 3400 block of Harris Street. Responding medics transported Hooks to a local hospital; he died of his injuries two days later, on Friday, November 29, 2024.

The Montgomery Police Department opened a homicide investigation. Family and friends held a funeral for Hooks on Saturday, December 14, 2024, at Ross-Clayton Funeral Home Chapel, with burial at Brassell Cemetery.

If anyone has information about what happened on Harris Street that morning, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.