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 Police are investigating a homicide that occurred Friday night. According to BPD, an investigation is underway in the 600 block of 26th Street SW. We will update this story with more information as it becomes available.

Birmingham Police responded to the scene of a homicide Friday night. It happened sometime before 8:30 p.m., in the 600 Block of 26th Street SW, according to the Birmingham Police Department. That's in the Germania Park neighborhood.

A man died and another man and a woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries after three dozen shots rang out Friday night in southwest Birmingham, police said. Around 7:13 p.m. Friday, West Precinct officers responded to two ShotSpotter notifications — which indicate gunfire — that registered about 36 rounds in the 600 block of 26th Street Southwest,

Police were called to the 2300 block of 1st Avenue North around 6:30 p.m. to investigate reports of multiple shots fired.