Michael Webb, 45, a man from Montgomery, Alabama, was killed on January 20, 2015, in what investigators quickly treated as a homicide. In the early hours of the morning, police and fire medics were dispatched to the 800 block of Cloverhill Drive after a report that someone had been shot. When they arrived, Webb was found suffering from a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene, leaving a west Montgomery neighborhood to wake up to flashing lights and the quiet, stunned certainty that
something irreversible had happened on their street.
As detectives worked the scene and began piecing together what led to the shooting, authorities described the killing as the result of an ongoing dispute that had been brewing before it turned violent. The details of that conflict were not laid out publicly in depth, but police indicated the argument and its history mattered—enough that, as the investigation moved forward, it narrowed onto a specific suspect.
By the next day, the case had shifted from questions to handcuffs. Montgomery Police announced that Rashid Webb, 41, of Montgomery had been charged with one count of murder, and they emphasized that despite the shared last name, the suspect and the victim were not related. U.S. Marshals took Rashid Webb into custody on January 21, 2015, and he was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Facility, held on a reported $250,000 bond as the city absorbed how quickly the search for answers had turned into an arrest.
