William Lewis Merritt was a 30-year-old man shot to death on January 19, 2018, in Bridgeport, Alabama. A former football player at North Jackson High School and Huntingdon College, he later worked in construction as a pipefitter, superintendent, and structural welder and enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Initial reports described the death as a shooting by a family member, indicating his father, William Lewis Merritt Jr., as the suspected shooter. Merritt Jr. later died on February 9, 2021; his obituary states he was preceded in death by his son William Will Lewis Merritt III.

Who in the Bridgeport area remembers Will Merritt or has information about the events of January 19, 2018?