Keyontae McCall, 18, was one of two teenagers reported missing from the Thomasville area of south Alabama on November 17, 2025. In the days that followed, state and local authorities and family members searched for the pair, who were last known to be near Thomasville before they disappeared. On Saturday, November 22, investigators with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation discovered two bodies with gunshot wounds near Ralph Ervin Road in the Pine Hill community
of Wilcox County. The victims were identified in news and court records as McCall and fellow teen Kalisha Dunson.
Charging documents and subsequent reporting state that both teenagers had been shot multiple times before their bodies were left in the rural area outside Pine Hill. The killings prompted ALEA’s State Bureau of Investigation to open a double-homicide case, with officials indicating that once the investigation is complete, the findings will be turned over to the Wilcox County District Attorney’s Office for potential prosecution. The discovery and confirmation of the deaths deeply affected Thomasville, where school officials publicly acknowledged that one of the victims was enrolled in the city school system, calling the loss “heartbreaking” and bringing in grief counselors and support staff to help students and employees process the tragedy.
Within days of the bodies being found, ALEA announced the arrest of Courtney Anderson of Thomasville. According to multiple outlets, Anderson was taken into custody and charged with capital murder involving two or more victims in connection with the shooting deaths of the two teens. He was booked into the Wilcox County Jail, where officials reported he was being held without bond while the investigation continued. Investigators later disclosed that the case had grown more complex than a single double homicide; during the search for the missing teenagers, McCall’s cousin, Antonio Ausbon Sr., was shot and killed in a separate incident that authorities say stemmed from an altercation among family members.
As detectives worked to untangle the overlapping events, ALEA announced a second arrest tied specifically to the teen homicides. Authorities said Edwin Shawan Hyde of Thomasville was located and arrested in downtown Pensacola, Florida, then charged with capital murder in the deaths of the two Wilcox County teenagers. At the time of reporting, Hyde was being held in the Escambia County, Florida, jail pending his return to Alabama. In a related but distinct case, investigators also charged Kentrious Grayson with murder in Ausbon’s death during the search effort, noting that Grayson was being held in the Wilcox County Jail without bond and that a previous attempted-murder bond had been revoked. Officials have repeatedly emphasized that all of the individuals charged in connection with these events are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court.
Online memorials give a sense of how McCall’s killing has resonated beyond the official case file. The National Gun Violence Memorial lists him as having been lost to gun violence on November 22, 2025, in Pine Hill and notes that dozens of virtual candles have been lit in his memory. The same tributes link his death with Dunson’s, underscoring that both were young students whose lives ended violently after they vanished together. Community statements from Thomasville City Schools ask residents to keep the families in their thoughts and to respect their privacy as they grieve, while ALEA has urged anyone with additional information about the killings to contact law enforcement as the investigation continues.
