In the early hours of September 12, 2017, the quiet of a Mobile, Alabama neighborhood was broken by violence. Inside a residence on Gulfwood Drive East, 28-year-old Brandon Cadwell, a Black male, was found shot to death alongside another man, 31-year-old Reginald Crenshaw Jr. Mobile police officers responded to a call at approximately 12:26 a.m. and discovered the two men, both having sustained fatal gunshot wounds.
The incident was investigated as a double homicide that stemmed from a robbery.
The investigation into the deaths of Cadwell and Crenshaw led to the identification of multiple suspects. Larry Jackson, then 21 years old, was arrested shortly after the incident and charged with two counts of murder and shooting into an occupied building. As the case progressed, further investigation led to the capital murder indictments of Jackson and another man, Treshun Hughes, in December 2018. Hughes was subsequently located and arrested, while Jackson turned himself in to the authorities at Metro Jail.
More than two years after the murders, a third suspect was apprehended. In March 2020, police arrested 24-year-old Joshua Williams III and charged him with four counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of Brandon Cadwell and Reginald Crenshaw Jr. The double homicide case gained wider attention when it was featured in an episode of the television series 'The First 48' in 2021. Friends and family remembered Brandon Cadwell as a caring person and an avid fan of Florida State University football.
