The death is Birmingham’s fifth homicide this year and the second this week. Nehemiah Williams Wren, 20, of Birmingham was shot to death Monday night inside a vehicle in a field in the Inglenook neighborhood. In all of Jefferson County, there have been nine homicides, including the five in Birmingham, in 2025.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC) - Birmingham Police are investigating after three people were shot and one was killed Friday night. According to BPD, officers received two shot spotter alerts registering 36 rounds at 7:13 Friday night in the 600 block of 26th St. Southwest.

Around 6:30 p.m., officers received reports that multiple shots had been fired in the 2300 block of 1st Avenue North, according to the Birmingham Police Department.