Johnarian Travez Allen, 29, was shot and killed in Union Springs, Alabama, on the evening of Thursday, August 27, 2020, while crossing the street on his way to a store. Law enforcement reports say he was struck eight times and pronounced dead at the scene.

Police describe the confrontation as beginning when 22-year-old Jeremiah Wesley Penn became angry because Allen was not crossing the street quickly enough. Penn allegedly exited his vehicle, exchanged words with Allen, then fired multiple shots. Penn fled but later turned himself in to a sheriff’s deputy and was arrested on a capital murder charge and booked into the Bullock County jail.

The shooting is described as a senseless act of violence that left a community and a family mourning. If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about the moments leading up to it, please come forward.