Sanchez Freeman, a 24-year-old Black man from Montgomery, was killed on May 24, 2015, in a shooting that left a lasting shadow over the Malabar Road area and over the people who knew him by the name carried in funeral notices as Sanchaz Ervin Freeman. The public record shows that his death was not just another brief police item from a violent holiday weekend.
It became a family loss marked by published funeral arrangements in Montgomery, with services later set at True Divine Baptist Church and burial at Kindle Baptist Church Memorial Cemetery.
For a time, the case appears to have moved through that familiar stretch of uncertainty, where a killing is known and mourned before the person responsible is publicly named. Then, in early July 2015, Montgomery police announced that 21-year-old Markuise Flynn had been charged with capital murder in Freeman’s death. Police said the shooting happened on Sunday, May 24, in the 3400 block of Malabar Road, and that the U.S. Marshals Service took Flynn into custody in Highland Home before he was returned to Montgomery and held without bond in the county detention facility.
The online record that is still readily accessible today is strongest on the beginning of the case: Freeman’s death, the city where it happened, the arrest, the charge, and the fact that investigators treated the killing as serious enough to pursue as capital murder. It is thinner on the rest of the journey. I did not find a readily accessible, independently verifiable court opinion or official public case summary tied specifically to Freeman’s homicide that lays out the full trial history, sentencing, or post-conviction record the way some older homicide cases do. But the available reporting does show that this was not left in the realm of rumor or unnamed suspicion. A suspect was identified, arrested, and charged, placing Markuise Flynn at the center of the case in connection with Freeman’s death.
What remains in the surviving online trail is the contrast between the intimacy of the loss and the sparseness of the archive. Freeman’s name appears in mourning notices with the softness families reserve for burial and remembrance, while the criminal reporting reduces that same life to the cold mechanics of a charge sheet, a road name, and a fugitive pickup in another county. Even so, those fragments tell a clear story: Sanchez Freeman was killed in Montgomery on May 24, 2015, the case did produce an identified suspect, and police publicly charged Markuise Flynn with capital murder after his arrest by the U.S. Marshals Service.
