Before sunrise on 13 November 2023, a Mobile police SWAT team went to a house on Sheringham Drive, near Cottage Hill Road, to serve a search warrant for marijuana.[1][2] Officers banged on the front door and window, shouted “police, search warrant” and were inside less than five seconds later.[1][2]

Randall Adjessom, 16, who lived in the house, came around a hallway corner seconds after they entered.[1][2] Officer Osviel Vigoa-Martinez shot him four times in the chest and abdomen.[2] The warrant was for Adjessom’s older brother, Deangelo, who was not there; officers found 8 grams of marijuana during the search.[1][2]

The family’s wrongful-death lawsuit says Randall had his hands up and was backing away.[1][2] The city denies wrongdoing, and the police say he had a laser-sighted pistol, which they say is visible beside him after the shooting.[1][2] The body camera video shows officers waited more than four minutes before beginning medical aid; Adjessom died at a hospital.[2]

After the shooting, then-Mayor Sandy Stimpson halted most predawn search warrants and ordered an independent review.[1][2] It was the fourth police encounter in Mobile in 2023 that ended in a civilian death, and the second fatal predawn raid that year.[1][2] A federal judge ordered the body camera footage released in October 2026.[1]