A man who ordered an Uber ride from the missing former Alabama assistant basketball coach who was found shot to death in Atlanta has been named a person of interest in the homicide, police said Friday.

The 30-year-old, who is in the Houston County, Georgia jail on an unrelated robbery charge, ordered the rideshare from Sammy Jackson, according to Atlanta police.

Jackson, a 59-year-old former assistant at the University of Alabama and Alabama A&M University who was also head coach at several Georgia universities, was reported missing by his family.

After his coaching career, Jackson supported his family by working for Uber’s food delivery service.

His wife, Jill Jackson, last heard from him before he started an Uber Eats shift on Sunday.

She received a text from her husband’s phone around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday that read ‘do you know my social security number.’ Her husband did not pick up when she then tried to call him.

Sammy Jackson was last seen on surveillance video at a Dollar General in Warner Robins, Georgia entering the store and then getting into his silver BMW, according to 11 Alive in Atlanta.

The vehicle was later found abandoned in a parking spot by an apartment complex in Bonaire, Georgia,

Sammy Jackson was found dead Wednesday from apparent gunshot wounds on Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway NW in Atlanta, police said.

Homicide detectives were still working to determine the circumstances around the incident, police said.

In a social media post, Sammy Jackson’s sister, Barbara Jackson, said her brother “had a Heart of GOLD & would have helped anybody in the world….Our love 1 is gone & we are not ready to except it..please pray for our family (GA & AL) cause this is going to be a hard 1…..We wanna thank each & everyone that shared all of our post trust me y’all showed out & did y’all part & we are 4ever grateful & can’t thank y’all enough Rest Easy Big Brother.”

Sammy Jackson was a star basketball player at Headland High School near Dothan who made all-conference playing for the University of Montevallo in the early 1980s.

Jackson spent a decade as an assistant coach at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville before becoming head coach at Fort Valley State University in Georgia from 2011-2018.

Along with other assistant jobs across the country, Jackson was head coach of Savannah State University’s basketball team from 1999-2000 and was an Alabama assistant from 2002-2003.