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Wearing bright red pants, Little is easily identifiable from eyewitness accounts amid the melee captured on the widely shared cell phone video, which shows him engaged in a physical altercation with the three security guards before he’s taken to the ground in front of a bar room full of onlookers.

The details of the situation are complex and much has been said on social media regarding its nuances. Still, the physical altercation was captured on video and posted by multiple witnesses.

“Numerous witnesses were interviewed, and multiple sources of video were obtained,” Kennedy said. “The shooter was found to be a contract security guard at the business, who had fled the scene. The suspect and the victim had been in an altercation at the lounge just before the shooting.”

Kennedy went on to say that the victim — identified as Rashid Little — was unarmed at the time of the shooting.

In the video, three contract security guards, including Hill, can be easily identified by their black tactical bullet-proof vests. While the three men are dressed and armed very much like police officers, the Tuscaloosa Police Department confirmed to Patch that none of the contract security guards were off-duty law enforcement.

During the tussle, though, a man identified by eyewitnesses as Little is locked up with one of the guards — Little’s arms at least halfway under the security guard’s armpits in a kind of grapple as they go to the ground with two other visibly armed security guards at Little’s back.

As the two men fell, the security guard tangled with Little had his right hand on his pistol holster.

Once Little was on the ground with the security guard, the two other armed security guards began dropping punches at Little as some patrons attempted in vain to break up the fight. At one point, one of the security guards, who was dressed in clothes and equipment that could be easily mistaken for a police officer, began to stomp Little.

While the videos seen by Patch did not show the moment gunfire erupted, Little was shot in the minutes that followed. He died at DCH Regional Medical Center a short time later.

He was 28 years old.

Kennedy said 35-year-old Arron Dewayne Hill was identified as the suspected shooter and was located later this morning, along with a Tuscaloosa County woman who’d been at the lounge at the time of the shooting.

Much has been said on background from reluctant eye-witnesses speaking to Tuscaloosa Patch and on social media regarding unverified details of the cause of the altercation.

Indeed, it remains unclear if the fatal incident spurred from something that happened in the moment and escalated — or if the altercation was the result of an underlying or ongoing issue between the two men or the victim and the security guards.

CRU Lounge released a statement following the shooting that directly blamed Hill for the incident, saying: “this should have not happened.”

Hill, a resident of West Blocton, was charged with a single count of murder.

The Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit also charged Vance resident Thyais Walker, 47, with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Walker’s deposition says she was charged after video evidence recovered by investigators allegedly shows her possessing the pistol that was used to kill Little.

Walker’s previous felony offense came in 2012 when she was convicted of conspiracy to distribute narcotics in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Per Aniah’s Law, both suspects remain in the Tuscaloosa County Jail without bond,

The Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Unit says the investigation is ongoing and additional charges are possible.

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