Terrell Fuller, a 25-year-old Black male from Montgomery, was killed on September 14, 2024, in a shooting that police said happened at about 1:40 p.m. in the 3200 block of Virginia Pines Lane, just off Virginia Loop Road. When officers pieced together what had happened, the case quickly hardened from a sudden burst of violence into a homicide investigation.
Police later identified Fuller publicly, and funeral-home information described him as a native and resident of Montgomery whose death left family and community members preparing for a homegoing service only days after the shooting.
At first, authorities released almost nothing beyond the basic facts: where he was found, when the shooting occurred, and that he died at the scene. That lack of detail gave the case a grim stillness in its early days, with investigators asking for information while the public knew only that Fuller’s life had ended on a September afternoon in a neighborhood off Virginia Loop Road. The available reports from that period did not name a suspect or explain what led to the gunfire.
Months later, the case moved. Montgomery police announced that Ken’Tarious Burden, 22, had been charged with murder in Fuller’s killing. Police said Burden was already being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on unrelated charges when investigators located him there on December 5, 2024, and served him with the murder warrant. Authorities said he would remain jailed without bond. That announcement turned the case from an unsolved homicide into one with a named defendant, though the public accounts available did not describe a motive, did not identify any additional suspects, and did not set out trial or conviction information.
What remains in the public record is the outline of a young Montgomery man’s final day and the long pause before an arrest. Fuller was first known to the wider public as a homicide victim identified by police; later, his name appeared again when prosecutors’ case-building reached the point of a murder charge against Burden. In the sources reviewed, that is where the story stands: a fatal shooting on September 14, 2024, an arrest announced in December, and a case that had advanced to a murder accusation but, in those reports, had not yet reached a public resolution.
