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31-year-old man shot to death in Birmingham’s Tom Brown Village
An early-morning shooting in Birmingham’s Tom Brown Village housing community left one man dead.
Police identified the victim as Brandon Wilson. He was 31.
South Precinct officers were dispatched at 1:30 a.m. Saturday to the 500 block of 41st Street North after the city’s gunfire detection system – Shot Spotter – indicated shots fired in that location. Officers were then updated that a person was down, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
Wilson was found wounded in the intersection of 41st Street and 5th Court North.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service rushed him to UAB Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Fitzgerald said details are limited and no one is in custody.
Wilson is Birmingham’s 59th homicide of 2024. Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 82 homicides including the 59 in Birmingham.
Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.