On the night of March 3, 2021, a running vehicle parked outside the Cloverdale Garden Apartments on Clarendon Avenue in Bessemer drew attention. Officers who checked the idling car found Shaquille O’Neil Steele, 27, inside with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene and the location became a homicide investigation.

Authorities later arrested Antaysha Marsha Wyatt and charged her with capital murder in connection with Steele’s death. In June 2021 investigators also arrested Darryius Eugene Tompkins Jr., identified as Wyatt’s boyfriend, and charged him with capital murder as well.

Anyone who saw activity around the Cloverdale Garden Apartments that night or has information about Steele’s last hours is asked to come forward.