Just after 2 a.m., the city’s East Precinct officers began getting reports of shots fired in the 4100 block of 49th Terrace North in the Inglenook community. While they were en route, dispatchers notified them that someone had been wounded, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
When police arrived, they found the victim unresponsive in the roadway. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene.
Fitzgerald said preliminary information indicates a birthday party was taking place at the house. An argument erupted and shots were fired.
There were several shell casings in the street.
“We do believe it was isolated and contained to the partygoers,’’ Fitzgerald said. He said the age group of people attending the party appeared to be 18 to 20.
A crowd of at least 50 onlookers gathered at the crime scene, some visibly distraught.
No arrests have been made.
Fitzgerald said many of those attending the party are believed to have fled after shots were fired. Police need to talk to those people, he said.
The deadly shooting is Birmingham’s 59th homicide this year. Of those, one was an officer involved shooting by an outside law enforcement agency four others have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
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