Five people — three 18-year-olds and two juveniles who will be charged as adults — were arrested on Thursday, November 12, 2026, in connection with the July 22 shooting on Rickarby Street in Mobile, Alabama, in which a 51-year-old woman, Genade Colley, was shot in the head in her own driveway, the Mobile Police Department announced at a news conference held by Police Chief William Jackson.
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The three adults were identified by police as Dantarious Tremaine Franklin, 18, Alex Ray Porter, 18, and Markil De'Shun Vaughn Tolbert, 18. The two juveniles were also arrested, but their names were not released. Police said the juveniles will be charged as adults, which means their cases will be handled in adult criminal court rather than in the juvenile system. All five arrests followed what the department described as an extensive investigation lasting nearly four months.
Source: The BuzzReport (Mobile Police Department announcement)
What happened on Rickarby Street on July 22
According to police and the victim's family, Colley was shot on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, after pulling into her driveway on Rickarby Street. Her family told FOX10 News in July that she had just arrived home when the gunfire began. She was struck in the head. Gunfire from the same incident also hit a nearby home, but no one inside that house was hurt, police said.
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Colley survived. Nearly four months after the shooting, she was still recovering, according to the Mobile Police Department — a measure of how serious a head wound from that night has been for her and her family, even though the case is recorded in police terms as a wounding rather than a homicide.
The charges each of the five faces
Police said all five face the same set of charges: attempted murder; shooting into an occupied vehicle; two counts of shooting into an unoccupied vehicle; and shooting into an occupied dwelling. Mobile County Metro Jail booking records dated November 12, 2026, under a shared case number, list Tolbert and Porter as booked on attempted murder and discharge-of-a-gun-into-an-occupied-or-unoccupied-building-or-vehicle charges, matching the department's announcement. The charges are allegations. Every one of the five is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in court, and no plea or court finding has been reported.
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Police did not release the names of the two juveniles, even though they will be charged as adults. Awaaz Punjab does not name minor suspects whose identities authorities have withheld. The three adults named in this report were identified publicly by the Mobile Police Department.
Why the case took nearly four months
A driveway shooting with a surviving victim and no suspect named at the scene is one of the harder cases for a city police department to close: investigators must work from shell casings, vehicle evidence, neighbourhood accounts and whatever camera footage exists, and must be able to tie specific people to specific shots before a prosecutor will sign off on attempted-murder charges. The department has not laid out its evidence in public, and it did not do so at Thursday's announcement — it said only that the arrests followed an extensive investigation. The detail of the case against each of the five will therefore come out in court filings and hearings, not from police statements, and readers should treat the department's account as the prosecution's starting position rather than a settled record.
What happens next
Bond hearings for the three adults were scheduled for Friday, November 13, the day after the arrests, and the adults were expected to be transported to Mobile County Metro Jail. The two juveniles, once charged as adults, will move through the same adult court process. From here the case goes to preliminary hearings and then to a Mobile County grand jury, which would have to indict before any trial. No trial date has been set, no motive has been announced by police, and the department has not said whether it believes more people were involved. Awaaz Punjab will update this story when bond outcomes, indictments or a motive are reported by the court or the department.
Mobile sits at the junction of Interstates 10 and 65 on the Alabama Gulf Coast, one of the busiest freight crossings in the American South, and its neighbourhoods — including the streets around Rickarby — are home to the port, warehouse and long-haul trucking workforce that keeps that corridor moving, including Punjabi and other South Asian drivers who run the I-10 route between Texas, Louisiana and Florida. A broad-daylight-style driveway shooting on a residential street, and a four-month wait for arrests, is exactly the kind of case that shapes whether working families on those streets feel their city is getting safer or not.