2022 Birmingham homicides

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This is a List of Birmingham homicides in 2022. It includes homicide cases occurring within the city limits during the calendar year. Note that a "homicide" refers to the cause of death as determined by a medical examiner, not to the commission of the crime of murder as charged by police and prosecutors.

51 homicides have been reported in the city as of May 15, putting the city on pace for 138 for the year. Based on the 2020 census count of 200,733 population, that represents a homicide rate of 68.7 homicides per 100,000 residents. Birmingham had 141 homicides in 2021. The recent record low of 62 homicides was set in 2014, and the recent record high was 148 in 1992. At this point in 2021, 44 homicides had been reported.

The city has averaged 11.4 homicides per month, or one every 2.6 days. There were 10 incidents in January, 14 in February, 8 in March, 14 in April and 4 so far in May. The longest stretch without a homicide was the 14-day span between January 14–28. 9 deaths were reported on Sundays, 6 on Mondays, 5 on Tuesdays, 8 on Wednesdays, 3 on Thursdays, 7 on Fridays, and 12 on Saturdays.

One death came at the hands of police, and 4 other reported homicides were ruled justifiable as self-defense by investigators or prosecutors. In one case murder charges were filed against an accomplice of the homicide victim rather than the shooter. Another case was investigated by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office rather than Birmingham police. With the exception of those, the department acknowledges 44 chargeable homicides, none of which were charged as manslaughter. Suspects have been identified in 16 cases, arrested in 13 and charged in 11.

48 deaths so far have resulted from shootings, 2 from blunt-force trauma, and one from unannounced causes. 7 incidents occurred outside at apartment complexes, 15 at private homes, 1 at a business, 1 at a private club, 2 at private parking lots, and 23 on the streets. 26 deaths were reported in the West Precinct, 10 in the East Precinct, 4 in the South Precinct and 10 in the North Precinct.

15 deaths came during altercations, at least 5 of which were apparently domestic in nature. 16 appeared to have been targeted assaults; one took place during a robbery; 2 were carried out in self-defense; 1 was a police shooting; and 1 came from a stray bullet. A motive in 14 other deaths has not been publicized.

42 victims were male and 8 were female. 1 has not been identified by gender.

Listing by date

  1. January 1: Fernando Jose Cruz-Soto, 20, died at UAB Hospital after being found shot in a parking lot after a reported early morning fight on the 300 block of 24th Street South in the Southside neighborhood. No arrest. (report)
  2. January 1: Timothy Dean Pinson, 32, was found shot to death in a car at the Vida on Valley apartments on the 800 block of Cable Car Court off Valley Avenue in Glen Iris. No arrest. (report)
  3. January 4: Michelle Kemp Gilder, 40, was shot to death in a vehicle on Treadwell Road near Tarrant-Huffman Road, along the northern fenceline of Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport property in Brownsville Heights. Her husband was grazed by a bullet in an apparently targeted assault. Charles Eugene Knight Jr was arrested in February and charged with capital murder and attempted murder. (report)
  4. January 4: Leeco Whittington, 24, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds suffered during an assault at the Citgo gas station at 36 South Park Road Southwest in Central Park. Two suspects fled in a silver sedan. No arrests. (report)
  5. January 7: William Kenneth Kennard, 57, was found shot to death and burned near the intersection of Birmingport Road and Slayden Avenue in Sherman Heights. No arrest. (report)
  6. January 8: Ed Franklin Harris, 49, was shot to death while riding a motorcycle at 16th Way Southwest and Matt Leonard Drive at the border of Powderly and Mason City. Multiple suspects abandoned a vehicle at the scene and fled on foot. No arrests. A person of interest was questioned but not charged. (report)
  7. January 8: Yasmine Wright, 16, was struck and killed by a bullet from the same shooting.
  8. January 12: De'Undray Nakil Haggard, 18, was shot to death on the 2900 block of John Bryan Road in the Kimbrough Homes public housing project in the Industrial Center neighborhood. A 16-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)
  9. January 14: Richard Spence, 56, died at Princeton Baptist Medical Center of a gunshot wound suffered during an argument at a nearby house on the 800 block of 7th Street Southwest in Arlington-West End. Clearence Speed Jr was arrested and charged with capital murder. Speed was later also charged with the 2021 murder of 2-year-old Major Turner in Wenonah. (report)
  10. January 28: Javarius "Deno" Reid, 17, was shot to death on the 2900 block of 16th Street North outside the ACIPCO plant. Investigators believe he was struck by crossfire as the car he was riding in passed near a gunfight. No arrest. (report)
  11. February 5: Chico Guest, 17, was shot to death by a parking lot attendant near the intersection of 10th Avenue North and 18th Street in Fountain Heights. Kambran Tremaine Young was also wounded in the shooting, that was ruled justified as self-defense during an attempted robbery. He was subsequently charged with felony murder as an accomplice in the crime that led to Guest's death. (report)
  12. February 17: Felicia A. Ford, 49, was found shot to death after an apparent domestic incident at an apartment in the Cooper Green Housing Community on the 1700 block of 14th Way Southwest in Mason City. Alton Dewayne Portlock was arrested in Mobile and charged with capital murder. (report)
  13. February 19: Anthony Jackson, 46, was shot to death during an apparent attempted robbery in front of his house at 1745 33rd Street Ensley in Ensley Highlands. No arrest. (report)
  14. February 20: Jeremiah Collier, 16, was found shot to death in a car that rolled into a house at 5116 Court O Ensley (report)
  15. February 20: Todd Lorenzo Johnson Jr, 16, and a friend of Collier's, was found shot to death near the intersection of 57th Street and Avenue P Ensley|Avenue P]]. Investigators believe he was shot while in the same car with and fell while trying to flee on foot. Another male was grazed in the hand, and a possible fourth person fled by foot.
  16. February 20: Yalunda Watts Young, 43, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds suffered in an assault outside the 604 Bar & Lounge at 604 9th Street North in Smithfield. No arrest. (report)
  17. February 21: Joshua Isaiah Carpenter, 26, was found dead after a reported shooting outside an apartment on the 1700 block of 33rd Street North in Norwood. No arrest. (report)
  18. February 22: Demetrius John-Mario Young, 30, was found shot to death inside a house on the 500 block of 83rd Place South in South East Lake. Another man was lightly wounded in a confrontation that escalated to shooting. (report)
  19. February 23: An unnamed male was shot to death by a Birmingham Police officer on the 4300 block of Morris Avenue in North Avondale following a conflict that began near the intersection of 1st Avenue North and 41st Street North. The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the circumstances of the police shooting. (report)
  20. February 24: Marcus Antonio Williams, 50, was found shot to death at the wheel of a car on the 600 block of 1st Street North in Smithfield. No arrest. (report)
  21. February 25: Marquis Antone Black Jr, 22, was found shot to death in a courtyard at an apartment complex at 957 47th Street North in Kingston. The suspected shooter(s) fled the scene in a sedan. (report)
  22. February 26: Navari Deon Jones, 38, was found shot to death in a car which crashed on the 1700 block of 1st Avenue North near Birmingham Police Headquarters in Fountain Heights following a reported shooting at the Tru-Riders Motorcycle Club at 905 Reverend Abraham Woods Jr Boulevard in Smithfield. Two females were also injured by gunfire at the club. Ernando Daron Dorsey was arrested in Calera in March and charged with murder, aggravated assault and domestic violence. (report)
  23. February 26: Nadarrius Lewis, 28, was found shot to death and another man wounded by gunshot outside an apartment in the Forest Hills Village complex at 2600 Tempest Drive Southwest in Garden Highlands. Lewis is believed to have confronted the other man at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. The shooting was ruled a justifiable homicide. (report)
  24. February 28: An unnamed male was found shot to death in a Chevrolet Trax stopped in the emergency lane of I-65 north near the Finley Boulevard exit in North Birmingham. No arrest. (report)
  25. March 1: KeAyron Hill, 26, was found shot to death on the 2100 block of Powderly Avenue in the Jones Valley neighborhood following an altercation. No arrest. (report)
  26. March 5: Jaylon Palmore, 13, was killed in a drive-by assault while sitting on the front porch of his home at 7512 1st Avenue South in East Lake. Another man was injured. No arrest. (report)
  27. March 6: Aven Deione Mitchell, 21, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds sustained in a shooting near the intersection of 13th Street and Avenue V in Ensley. He was found in a car with another wounded man that came to a stop near Birmingham Fire Station 18. No arrest. (report)
  28. March 7: Tamaiya Morton, 26, was found shot to death behind the wheel of an SUV which crashed into a utility pole on the 900 block of 46th Place North in the Rev. Dr Morrell Todd Homes public housing community in Kingston. Raven Teaire Thompson was taken into custody nearby and later charged with capital murder. (report)
  29. March 16: Jonathan Earl Dancer, 26, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds suffered during an altercation at 6648 Division Avenue in East Lake. A person of interest was detained for questioning, but investigators determined he had fired in self-defense and filed no criminal charges. (report)
  30. March 16: Darrius Deveal Frazier, 25, acquitted in January of the October 2019 murder of Gjamal Antonio Rodriguez, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds suffered in the parking lot of the Springfield Landing Apartments 1061 Huffman Road in Roebuck. Another person was wounded. No arrest. (report)
  31. March 19: Christopher Duane Watkins, 56, was found dead from gunshot wounds in a field formerly used as a trash dump near Little Shades Drive off of Lakeshore Parkway at Wheeling Crossroad in the Oxmoor neighborhood. His death was investigated by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Justin Lemar Harris and Cadarrion Jerrod Zinnerman were arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)
  32. March 21: Calvin Dewayne Jackson III, 24, was shot to death outside a home at the University Crossings apartments on the 200 bock of 3rd Avenue Southwest. Police responding to a report of a hostage situation witnessed the homicide and fired shots at the female shooter, injuring and disarming her. She was taken to UAB Hospital. The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the incident. (report)
  33. April 3: Antwon Ladarius Truss, 36, was found shot to death at his home at 1441 67th Street Ensley near Green Acres Elementary School in Green Acres. A female suspect was taken into custody. (report)
  34. April 3: Cynthia Delane Burt, 62, was found dead from apparent blunt force trauma at her home at 4909 Hillman Drive Southwest in the Hillman neighborhood. Her son, Desmond Deon Burt, was arrested and charged with capital murder. (report)
  35. April 3: Desmond Burt Jr, 3, her grandson, was killed in the same incident.
  36. April 6: Christopher Bighames, 57, was found shot to death in his apartment at 933 52nd Place North in Woodlawn. No arrest. (report)
  37. April 8: Veronica Joseph, 46, was shot to death and two men wounded in a shooting outside a house on the 1400 block of 33rd Street Ensley in Ensley Highlands. Her son, Jamari Lee Cook, was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder. (report)
  38. April 10: Daniel Cook, 48, was found shot to death after an apparent domestic dispute at his home on the 900 block of 10th Street Southwest in Arlington-West End. Joseph Andrew Edwards was arrested and charged with murder. (report)
  39. April 15: Mickey Collins, 25, was shot to death while inside a parked car on the 1700 block of Avenue D in Ensley. No arrest. (report)
  40. April 17: Arthur Armstrong, 42, was shot to death during a domestic argument at his home on the 1200 block of Stonecrest Drive in Spring Lake. A cooperating female was questioned at Birmingham Police Headquarters and the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office determined that the shooting was justifiable. No criminal charges were filed. (report)
  41. April 19: The remains of an unidentified male were found burning on the 500 block of Jersey Street in Wylam. No arrest. (report)
  42. April 24: Urian Dion Woods, 40, died at UAB Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered on the 2300 block of 7th Avenue North near Phillips Academy in the Central City neighborhood. Woods made it to Marconi Park on foot before collapsing. A person of interest was taken into custody for questioning, but no charges have been announced. (report)
  43. April 25: Davion Marcell Hickley, 19, died at Princeton Baptist Medical Center after a gun battle on the 800 block of 3rd Avenue West on the border of Bush Hills and Rising-West Princeton. Two others suffered minor injuries. No arrests. (report)
  44. April 25: Jomorion Gordon, 19, died at UAB Hospital from gunshot wounds, after being found unresponsive behind the wheel of a car that struck a tree on the 8300 block of 4th Avenue South in South East Lake. No arrest. (report)
  45. April 27: Le'Kameren Deru, 22, was shot to death and another person seriously wounded in a car-to-car assault on Bankhead Highway near the intersection with Finley Boulevard in Thomas. No arrest. (report)
  46. April 29: Roderick Mariachi Williams, 25, was shot to death during an altercation on a stairway at an apartment complex on the 4200 block of 2nd Avenue South in Forest Park-South Avondale. Another male was critically wounded, and a third was taken into custody at the scene as a person of interest to the investigation. No charges have been announced. (report)
  47. April 30: Jonathan Edmond, 30, was found dead from a gunshot wound alongside the road on the 700 block of New Hill Avenue in East Brownville. No arrest. (report)
  48. May 4: Jamie Monte Gibson, 16, died at Grandview Medical Center from gunshot wounds. He was found lying off the exit ramp from I-459 onto Overton Road in the Overton neighborhood, presumably having been shot in a car beforehand. A red Toyota Camry is sought in connection with the shooting. No arrest. (report)
  49. May 5: An unnamed male was found shot to death on the sidewalk on the 1600 block of 26th Avenue North in Acipco-Finley. Investigators believe a dispute may have begun inside a nearby home. No arrest. (report)
  50. May 7: Teresa Denise Coleman, 45, was found shot to death in a vehicle on 32nd Street Southwest at Beulah Avenue in Germania Park. No arrest. (report)
  51. May 14: Justin Andrew Snow, 38, was found shot to death behind the wheel of a white Ford Edge that crashed into a median barrier on I-20/59 south, just west of Arkadelphia Road in the Thomas neighborhood. No arrest. (report)

Responses

In April, the Jefferson County Department of Health announced funding for a Hospital Violence Intervention Program to provide resources to victims of violent crime who are at risk of continued violence.

See also

References

  • Robinson, Carol (February 21, 2022) "‘We are 100 percent fed up’: Birmingham police chief, mayor address multiple teen killings." The Birmingham News
  • Yurkanin, Amy (April 5, 2022) "Hospitals to get $1 million to fight gun violence as homicides rise in Birmingham." The Birmingham News
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