Anthony Cornelius Blount Jr., 45, was found unresponsive inside his vehicle after a single-vehicle crash on the 900 block of Arkadelphia Road in Birmingham on Thursday, November 16, 2023. He had sustained a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. What began as a reported traffic incident was treated by investigators as a homicide after the discovery of the wound.

Detectives focused on two men, Demarcus Emmanuel Sears, 23, and Acie Muleek Milton, 22. Court documents allege both were in Blount’s vehicle when the fatal shot was fired and that the shooting occurred during a robbery. Sears was arrested November 21 by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force and Milton was taken into custody the next day; capital murder warrants were issued and both were held in Jefferson County Jail without bond as prosecutors prepared for trial.

If anyone saw activity in the 900 block of Arkadelphia Road on November 16 or has information about Blount’s movements that evening, please come forward.