Quamae Summerlin, an 18-year-old Black male from Montgomery, Alabama, was killed in the first hours of August 4, 2020, when the night broke open with gunfire on Park Towne Way. Just after midnight, Montgomery Police and fire medics were sent to the 4800 block after a report of someone shot. When they arrived, they found Summerlin and another young man, Jeremiah Chatman, both struck by gunfire. Neither survived; both were pronounced dead at the scene as investigators began treating the location as a death investigation.
In the immediate aftermath, details were scarce beyond the stark essentials: where it happened, when it happened, and the fact that two lives had ended there. Police said the circumstances were still under investigation and, in the days right after the shootings, they had not announced any arrests. They asked anyone with information to contact Montgomery Police or tip lines such as CrimeStoppers and Secret Witness, signaling that detectives were still trying to piece together what led to the violence and who was responsible.
Publicly available incident listings recorded Summerlin as a fatal shooting victim in Montgomery on August 4, 2020, consistent with the time window described by police, and they likewise did not identify a suspect. In the sources available from that period and in later publicly surfaced summaries tied back to the original reporting, there is no clear, verified public record of a named suspect, an arrest announcement, or a filed set of charges that can be reliably connected to his killing.
As the case moved from headlines into memory, the written traces of Summerlin’s life shifted to funeral notices and remembrances. A published obituary and funeral home posting described services arranged in Montgomery and listed his passing as August 3, 2020—an administrative date that can appear in death notices even when the fatal incident is reported in the early hours of the following day. What remained consistent across the accounts was the central fact: his death came suddenly, in a burst of violence that left a family planning a graveside goodbye and a city left with questions still hanging in the air.
