A 23-year-old was fatally shot outside a Tuscaloosa bar Sunday morning and a suspect is in custody.

Capt. Gary Hood with the Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit said Tuscaloosa police and University of Alabama police responded to a parking lot in the 600 block of Paul W. Bryant Drive on a shooting around 2:15 a.m. Sunday. Upon arrival, they found the victim, Branden Moss, lying in the parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds.

Moss was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 23.

Witnesses on the scene told police when the 3000 Bar closed at 2 a.m., a fight broke out in the parking lot across the street, where they said four black males assaulted another black male.

Moss saw the fight and walked over to help the victim.

Hood said after aiding the assault victim, Moss walked over to one of the men involved in the fight, who was leaving the parking lot in his car, and the two started talking. While Moss and that man were talking, another man who was not involved in the fight came up from behind and shot Moss several times, Hood said.

Moss ran about 75 feet and collapsed.

After talking to witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage, police identified the suspect as 26-year-old Markis Russell. He was taken into custody Sunday morning at his girlfriend's apartment. Russell has been charged with murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and being a person forbidden to possess a pistol.