2024 Birmingham homicides

This is a List of Birmingham homicides in 2024. 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.

0 homicides have been reported in the city as of January 1. Birmingham had 153 homicides in 2022, a record high. The recent record low of 62 homicides was set in 2014. At this point in 2023, 0 homicides had been reported.

The city has averaged 0 homicides per month, or one every __ days.

0 of the reported homicides have been ruled justifiable as self-defense by investigators or prosecutors. With the exception of those cases, the department acknowledges 0 chargeable homicides, none of which were prosecuted as manslaughter. Suspects have been identified in 0 cases, arrested in 0 and charged in 0.

At least 121 deaths so far have resulted from shootings, 11 from reckless driving, 1 from blunt-force trauma, 1 from child abuse, and 2 from unannounced causes. -- incidents occurred at private homes, -- at apartment complexes, -- at businesses, and -- on the streets.

-- of the homicides resulted from apparent targeted assaults, __ during attempted robberies, __ from domestic disputes or abuse, __ from arguments between acquaintances, and __ resulted from reckless driving. The circumstances of __ other deaths have not been made public.

0 victims were males and 0 were females.

See also

• List of homicides in 2024
• Birmingham homicides by year
• Crime in Birmingham

External links

• Fatal Shootings in Birmingham, Alabama at the National Gun Violence Memorial