A Saturday-night shooting in a southwest Birmingham neighborhood left one person dead.
Birmingham police were called just after 6:35 p.m. to the 2800 block of 29th Street S.W. on a report of a male shot.
The victim was found unresponsive in a driveway, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald. A family made the initial discover, he said.
The victim, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead on the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service.
Police are in the early stages of the investigation and no details about what led up to the deadly shooting were immediately available. Fitzgerald said he doesn’t know if the victim lived in the area, but said investigators believe he frequents the neighborhood.
No arrests have been made.
The man is the city’s 132nd homicide this year. Of those, seven have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 178 homicides, including the 132 in Birmingham.
Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
