While many families in Mobile were sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, police were responding to a shooting that left one man dead and another wounded.
Officers with the Mobile Police Department were called to the 3900 block of Wood Drive, near Perch Creek, around 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving evening after reports of two people shot. Both victims, a 23-year-old man and a 25-year-old man, were rushed to a local hospital for treatment.
The younger of the two men did not survive. Police said he died from his injuries on the way to the hospital. The 25-year-old was treated for multiple gunshot wounds and was later released from the hospital.
Mobile police spokesman Officer Terence Perkins said investigators believe a third man was responsible for the shooting, though he declined to detail what led up to the gunfire. According to the department, the suspect is a Black man believed to be in his late 20s, about 6 feet tall and roughly 275 pounds, with brown hair.
No arrest had been announced in the days immediately following the shooting, and police asked anyone with information about the gunman or the circumstances of the shooting to come forward.
The Wood Drive neighborhood sits in a quiet residential pocket near Perch Creek on Mobile’s west side, and neighbors said gunfire on a holiday evening was unusual for the area. Holiday shootings tend to draw added scrutiny from investigators and the community alike, in part because family gatherings bring more people together in close quarters, raising the stakes when disputes turn violent.
Mobile police continued to investigate the shooting in the days that followed, working leads from witnesses in the area. As is typical in active homicide investigations, few additional details were released publicly while detectives worked to identify and locate the man believed to have opened fire.