A young man was found shot to death inside a car early Tuesday in east Birmingham.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Demitris Lendell Silliman Jr. He was 21 and lived in Center Point.
Birmingham Police and fire medics responded at 1:30 a.m. to the 1100 block of Penfield Drive which is near Zion City Road.
Silliman was found unresponsive inside the vehicle. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 1:50 a.m.
No additional details have been released.
Silliman is the city’s 117 so far this year. Of those, seven have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County there have been 158 homicides including the 117 in Birmingham.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
