D’Angelo Wallace, a 23-year-old man from Mobile, Alabama, was found dead just after daybreak on Wednesday, October 5, 2022. Police were dispatched around 7:18 a.m. to the 1500 block of Navco Road after a report of “one down,” and when officers arrived they discovered Wallace deceased, beginning what authorities described as a homicide investigation.
In the days that followed, the outline of what happened sharpened: investigators determined Wallace had been killed by a gunshot wound, and the discovery site—along Navco Road, just west of Morningside Drive—became the focal point of the case. While investigators kept many of the underlying details close, the death was treated as a murder from the start, with police asking anyone with information to come forward as detectives worked to reconstruct Wallace’s final hours.
Less than a week after Wallace was found, Mobile Police announced arrests. Kevin Sanders, 20, and an unnamed 17-year-old were taken into custody and charged with murder in connection with Wallace’s killing. Police did not publicly lay out the evidence or a motive at the time, but the arrests marked the case’s first major turn—from an early-morning body discovery to named suspects facing the most serious charge.
Later reporting indicated the case continued moving through the courts, with developments around bond and co-defendants. Court documents referenced in a 2024 report said bond had been revoked for Zyyon Sanders and his brother Kevin, described as co-defendants in Wallace’s murder, and that a trial was scheduled to begin in January.
