On November 21, 2025, Kashabe Perkins Jr., a 19-year-old male from Montgomery, Alabama, whose publicly available reports do not specify his race or ethnicity, was fatally shot in a late-night incident on the 4600 block of Mobile Highway. Just after midnight, Montgomery police officers and fire medics were dispatched on reports of multiple people shot; dispatch records and local coverage indicate the call came in around 12:06 a.m.
Responding officers found Perkins suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, making the case one of the city’s latest homicide investigations.
The shooting was not isolated to a single victim. Alongside Perkins, police located a juvenile male with life-threatening injuries and an adult woman with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound at the same scene on Mobile Highway. Both of these additional victims were transported to local hospitals for treatment. Investigators reported recovering two firearms at the scene, a detail repeated across local news and memorial write-ups, but they have not publicly clarified whether either weapon was used by any of the wounded individuals or solely by the still-unknown shooter or shooters.
In the days following his death, online memorials and tribute pages described Perkins as a young man “full of promise,” remembered for his warmth, kindness, and the light he brought to those around him. Community-oriented obituary and remembrance sites portray him as a cherished son, friend, and neighbor, with family, classmates, and residents of Montgomery sharing their grief and emphasizing how abruptly his life was cut short. The National Gun Violence Memorial also lists him among the city’s 2025 gun violence victims, marking November 21, 2025, as the date he was lost to a shooting in Montgomery and situating his death amid a broader pattern of fatal gunfire in the area that year.
As for the investigation, authorities have not announced any arrests or publicly identified any suspects in connection with the shooting. Coverage summarizing police statements notes that, despite recovering two firearms, investigators have not released a motive and continue to treat the case as an open homicide inquiry. Montgomery police have appealed repeatedly for assistance from the public, asking anyone with information about what happened on the 4600 block of Mobile Highway that morning to contact CrimeStoppers or the Montgomery Police Department directly.
