An adult shot on Huffman Road in Center Point was rushed to UAB Hospital's trauma center and is in stable condition, after Center Point Fire District crews responded to a report of a person shot at 9:40 in the 1400 block of the road. The scene was ultimately left in the hands of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, which is handling the investigation moving forward.
According to WBMA, the patient's condition was described as stable once they arrived at the trauma center, though no further details on the victim's identity, the circumstances of the shooting or any potential suspects were included in that report. The station's account places the response squarely in the 1400 block of Huffman Road, a detail that matters given how often this same stretch of road has turned up in Birmingham crime news over the past couple of years.
A Road With a Troubled Recent History
Huffman Road has been the site of multiple serious shootings in the recent past, though the evidence available does not establish whether any of those earlier incidents are connected to Wednesday's. In one case, abc3340.com reported that officers responded to a report of a traffic accident shortly after 4 p.m. in the 1000 block of Huffman Road — a separate account that places first responders at a different time and location than the 9:40 response described above, with no way to reconcile the two from available information.
That earlier incident turned into a homicide investigation after the Jefferson County Coroner determined that 16-year-old George Camarius Daniel had died at the scene from an apparent gunshot wound, per abc3340.com's reporting. Another juvenile male suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound in the same incident and was also transported to UAB Hospital for treatment. The Birmingham Police Department's Special Operations Bureau took one suspect into custody and detained two others for questioning, though police said the motive for the shooting remained undetermined. That case was reported as Birmingham's 53rd murder investigation of 2025.
A different, earlier shooting on Huffman Road also ended in a death: officers responded at approximately 12:30 a.m. on a November 17 call to a person-shot report in the 1000 block of Huffman Road, and the male victim later died, abc3340.com reported at the time. In yet another incident, one person was grazed by gunfire and another suffered a life-threatening injury in a shooting at the Intown Suites at 1100 Huffman Road, according to WVTM 13, which reported that one of the victims was dropped off in a private vehicle at a fire station on the road with a life-threatening injury.
Birmingham's Broader Homicide Trends
The repeated violence on this single stretch of road comes against the backdrop of a city that has seen dramatic swings in its homicide numbers. Birmingham ended 2024 with 152 homicides, the highest total the city had recorded since 1933, according to al.com. Jefferson County as a whole recorded 196 homicides that year, with 47 of them occurring outside the city of Birmingham itself.
That same reporting noted a sharp shift in the opposite direction more recently: homicides in the rest of the county dropped from 87 in 2021 to 47 in 2024, a figure the outlet described as a return to pre-pandemic levels. Halfway through 2025, Birmingham's homicide total was reported as half what it had been at the same point in 2024, even as a majority of homicides across Jefferson County continue to stem from gun violence, per PARCA data cited in the same article. In areas patrolled by the Sheriff's Office, however, homicides in the first half of 2025 were even with the first-half 2024 total, suggesting the decline has not been uniform across the county.
Separate Huffman Road Case Led to Capital Murder Charge
Not every Huffman Road case involves an unknown assailant. In a domestic homicide case on the road, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said Emell Peavy was booked on a capital murder charge, with no bond currently set. That case stands apart from Tuesday's shooting, underscoring how varied the circumstances behind Huffman Road's recent violence have been.
As of now, no information has been released about who was shot Tuesday morning, what led up to the shooting, or whether anyone is being sought in connection with it. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office has taken over the scene from Center Point Fire District crews, and any further details are expected to come from investigators as the case develops.
