Antwain Lamar Lewis Jr., a 25-year-old Black man, did not die in a sudden moment on January 25, 2024 so much as at the end of a long, brutal chain of events that had started nearly two years earlier. Public reports say he died at his home in Adamsville from complications of a gunshot wound he suffered in a shooting on April 29, 2022, in the 4200 block of 2nd Avenue South in the Avondale area. That night, police were called to an apartment complex just before 11 p.m.
and found one man, Roderick Mariachi Williams Jr., dead from gunfire, while Lewis was found critically wounded but still alive. His survival after that attack turned the case into a long shadow hanging over the original shooting, until his death in January 2024 transformed the old violence into a second homicide.
In the immediate aftermath of the 2022 shooting, investigators said they identified Dmarcco Montez Harris as the suspect. News reports said Harris, then 26 and from Birmingham, was arrested and charged with murder in Williams’ death and attempted murder in the shooting that severely wounded Lewis. He was reported to be held in the Jefferson County Jail on a $2 million bond. At that stage, the case looked like a deadly Avondale shooting with one man dead and another fighting to live, but Lewis’ condition meant the legal story was not finished.
When Lewis died on January 25, 2024, the case deepened again. Public reporting says Harris, who had already been facing the original murder charge, was then charged with capital murder because the shooting incident had now claimed two lives. But the prosecution did not end in a conviction. Later reporting states that Harris went to trial and was acquitted after claiming self-defense, meaning that although a suspect was arrested and charged, the case did not end with a guilty verdict. Based on the public sources available, Harris is the central suspect publicly linked to Lewis’ death, and I did not find reliable reporting showing additional arrests, convictions, or other suspects in Lewis’ homicide beyond that prosecution.
