Thanksgiving Day will mark three years since two men were found shot to death in southwest Birmingham, and police are again asking for the public’s help in solving the double murder.

It was Nov. 23, 2020, when Jonathan Dee Jackson, a 48-year-old grandfather, and Darnell Ogletree, 22, were found unresponsive.

Birmingham’s West Precinct officer responded at 3:18 a.m. that Monday to a Shot Spotter call at 2010 48th Place S.W.

When they arrived, they found Ogletree outside of the vehicle on the passenger’s side and Jackson in the driver’s seat, still wearing his seat belt. He had been shot in the neck through the windshield.

Both were pronounced dead on the scene.

“He was one of a kind,” Taiylor Jackson previously told AL.com of her father. “My dad would help anybody no matter whether you ere purple, green, Black, white or Hispanic.”

Jackson lived in Hueytown with Taiylor and her daughter, and they lived next door to other family members. When Taiylor went to bed that Sunday night, her father was still home, and her boyfriend was up playing video games.

At some point late Sunday or early Monday, Jackson got a call from Ogletree asking Jackson to come pick him up in Ensley. Taiylor said when she got up for work at 4 a.m. Monday to go to work, she realized her father was not home.

A short time later, Taiylor noticed police lights flashing her aunt and uncle’s home next door. She walked down there to see what was going on and the officers sent her back home. Next, they came to her house to ask a few questions, but Taiylor had no idea what had happened at that point.

“I was not putting two and two together that something happened to my dad,’’ she said. “I was like, ‘Where is my dad?’ He didn’t have any criminal history. He’d maybe gotten one traffic ticket in his 48 years.”

She soon learned her father was dead.

Taiylor said she had only met Ogletree that day. He and her father had been introduced through a mutual friend, and Ogletree had asked if he could wash some clothes at their house. He did and her father took him back home. It was later that night that he apparently called Jackson and asked him to come pick him up from Ensley.

“It didn’t make sense to me but then it did in a way because he would do that for anybody,’’ Taiylor said. “If you needed help and my dad could help you, then he would.”

“He didn’t just leave the house in the middle of the night to be riding around,’’ she said.

Jackson, who graduated from Thompson High School in Alabaster, was a coal miner and a welder but had recently been out of work because of neuropathy, arthritis and carpal tunnel in his hands. He was looking into getting on disability but also having surgery that could help him work with his hands again.

“He was a tough man,’’ Taiylor said. “You’d meet him and think he was intimidating, but once you got to know him, you’d have a soft spot in your heart for him.”

Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777. Crime Stoppers may award tipsters up to $5,000.