Xxavier Moses, a 26-year-old Black male from Montgomery, Alabama, was caught in a violent chain of events on November 5, 2014, when police said a robbery on Calmar Drive turned into a fatal shooting. Reports placed the attack in the 5700 block around 12:30 a.m., and said Moses was one of two people targeted during the robbery. He was shot and taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
Even in the brief public accounts that survive online, the outline is stark: a late-night robbery, gunfire, a rushed trip to the hospital, and a life ending before the city had fully awakened to what had happened.
In the days that followed, Montgomery police said the killing was not treated as an isolated act of chaos but as a planned crime. Within a short time, investigators announced the arrests of Stephen Gordon, 19, Quaniesha Carter, 20, and Tchernavia McWilliams, 26. According to police statements carried by local news outlets, all three were charged with capital murder, and reporting at the time said they were accused of conspiring to rob and shoot Moses. The allegations gave the case a colder shape: not simply a robbery gone wrong, but a coordinated attack that ended with Moses mortally wounded on a Montgomery street.
Then the case widened again. A few days later, Montgomery police announced that a fourth suspect, 18-year-old Jason Watson, had also been charged. News reports said Watson turned himself in to police in Monroeville before being taken into Montgomery custody. He too was charged with capital murder and first-degree robbery, and local reporting said he was being held without bond. That fourth arrest suggested investigators believed more than one person had played a role in the robbery and killing, and it underscored how quickly the case had expanded from one fatal shooting into a multi-defendant homicide prosecution.
Publicly accessible online reporting is much clearer about the arrests than about what happened afterward in court. The sources I found consistently identify four suspects and describe the charges filed against them, but they do not clearly show the later outcome of those prosecutions, such as trial verdicts, plea deals, dismissals, or convictions. The online record that remains is therefore strongest on the opening chapter of the case: Moses was shot during what police described as a robbery, he died after being taken to the hospital, and four people were later arrested and charged in connection with his killing.
