Late on the night of September 24, 2017, Rodrequis Antwon Green, a 26-year-old Black / African American male, arrived at the Chevron on Lloyd Noland Parkway in Fairfield, Alabama, expecting nothing more dramatic than an ordinary stop under bright lights and open sky. Instead, just before 11:00 p.m., gunfire shattered the routine. Fairfield police were dispatched to the station at 3640 Lloyd Noland Parkway, and Green was found wounded and rushed toward emergency care as officers began sorting
through the first chaotic accounts of what had happened in the parking lot.
At the hospital, surgeons fought for him, but the injuries were too severe. The Jefferson County Coroner later reported that Green was pronounced dead at 1:27 a.m. on September 25, after being taken to UAB Hospital and undergoing surgery. What began as a single shooting scene at a gas station became a homicide investigation, with Fairfield police leading the case and witnesses’ recollections turning into the earliest threads detectives could follow.
As investigators worked, authorities described the shooting as a drive-by and focused on a specific suspect. Within days, law enforcement moved to take a young Birmingham resident into custody: Demetrius Coach. According to authorities, Coach was arrested on October 3, 2017, by the U.S. Marshal’s Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force in Ensley, where he was located at a residence in the 3900 block of Court K. In the account given by authorities, a person at the door initially denied knowing him; with the homeowner’s consent to search, Coach was found hiding in a crawlspace. He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and was charged with capital murder.
Investigators also outlined what they believed sparked the deadly moment. A police report referenced by local reporting indicated Coach thought Green had called him a name, but witnesses told police that Green had been talking to someone else in a car—an apparent misunderstanding that, in the state’s telling, escalated into lethal violence at the station. The public record available through accessible reporting establishes the arrest and the capital-murder charge against Coach in the days after the killing, but those same accessible reports do not provide further detail about later court outcomes such as a trial date, plea, verdict, or sentencing in this case.
