Sheik Fashaan Le’nard Butts, 25, was fatally shot in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 10, 2024, at the Meadow Manor apartment complex in Eufaula, Alabama. Police found Butts with gunshot wounds after responding to reports of gunfire; emergency personnel and officers attempted aid but he died from his injuries. The shooting reportedly followed a confrontation at the apartment complex.

The Eufaula Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division opened the investigation. In the days after the killing investigators identified a person of interest and named Quendarious Hightower, a resident of Americus, Georgia, as someone they wanted to question and asked the public for help locating him. No information about arrests or formal charges has been released.

If anyone has information about that night at Meadow Manor or the whereabouts of Quendarious Hightower, please come forward to the Eufaula Police Department.