Andre Lydell Thompson, a 33-year-old man, was killed after an early-morning shooting outside Goldmine Entertainment on U.S. Highway 231 in Troy, Alabama, in the early hours of October 24, 2021. According to police reports carried by local news outlets, officers were called to the nightclub at about 1:37 a.m. on a report of a man shot, but by the time they arrived Thompson had already been rushed to Troy Regional Medical Center in a private vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
While the killing is often tied to Troy because that is where the shooting happened, the reporting identified Thompson as being from Highland Home.
In the first stunned hours after the shooting, there was no arrest, only the sense of confusion that follows sudden violence in a crowded nightlife setting. Investigators began piecing together what had happened at Goldmine Entertainment, and the case quickly shifted from an active homicide investigation to a manhunt. Police later identified 27-year-old Xavier Quantez Edwards of Troy as the suspect they wanted in connection with Thompson’s death, warning the public that he should be considered armed and dangerous as they searched for him.
The break came a little more than a week later. On November 1, 2021, Edwards turned himself in to the Troy Police Department. Authorities then charged him with murder in Thompson’s death, and he was booked into the Pike County Jail, where local reporting said he was being held on a $100,000 bond. Publicly available online reporting I found clearly documents the identification of Edwards as the suspect and his arrest on a murder charge, but I did not find reliable online coverage confirming a later trial outcome or conviction in the case.
What remains in the public record is the bare, tragic outline of a life ending in a flash of violence: a night out at a Troy club, a gunshot call just after 1:30 in the morning, a desperate private drive to the hospital, and a family left to bury Andre Lydell Thompson less than two weeks later. His obituary placed his passing on October 23, 2021, reflecting the late-night timing that carried into the early morning hours of October 24 in police reporting, but both sources describe the same fatal event that ended with his death after the shooting at Goldmine Entertainment.
