On June 16, 2019, at approximately 9:41 p.m., 18-year-old Deonte Keshawn Puryear was fatally shot in the Summerchase subdivision of Calera, Alabama. Puryear, a resident of Alabaster, was found in his vehicle parked in a driveway within the subdivision. He sustained a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
In connection with the incident, 24-year-old Calera resident Jaylin Tevin Washington was arrested. At the time of the shooting, Washington was out on bond from a prior
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