Tafari Shalamon Simmons, a 32-year-old Black man, was found dead from gunshot wounds on the morning of October 6, 2017, in the 6400 block of Johns Road in Hueytown, near Bessemer. His body was identified by the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office using fingerprints after he was initially unknown at the scene. Public incident records and memorial listings record the shooting and place his death in the context of other local gun violence that day.

Investigators later identified a man publicly named as a suspect, Danny Lemar Hendrix, who was reported to have been charged with murder in connection with Simmons’s death. The available timeline does not detail warrants, extradition, or the evidence that led from suspicion to charges. Does anyone have information about Tafari’s last movements or witnesses who were in the Johns Road area that morning?