A shooting shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday at the former Adamson Ford building in Birmingham's Midtown left one person dead, according to police. The vacant building, located on Second Avenue South between 19th and 20th streets, is known as a spot where homeless people gather, and investigators have not yet said whether the gunfire happened inside or outside the structure.
Birmingham Police Chief Michael Pickett confirmed that one person died at the scene, as reported by AL.com. Beyond that confirmation, little else has been made public. Officials have not released the identity of the person killed, nor have they disclosed what led to the shooting or whether any weapon has been recovered.
The uncertainty extends to the basic geography of the crime scene itself. Per the outlet's reporting, it remains unclear whether the shooting took place inside the long-shuttered dealership building or somewhere on the surrounding property, a detail that could shape how investigators piece together what happened in the moments before someone died there. An investigation into the deadly shooting is underway, and the original report noted it would be updated as more information becomes available.
A Violent Weekend Across the City
The Midtown shooting capped a bloody stretch for Birmingham that began the night before, when two separate shootings followed the Magic City Classic. One of those shootings killed a 19-year-old and left eight other people injured, one of them fighting for their life, according to the same al.com report. The station's account of that case has not been linked to the Midtown shooting in any official capacity, but both unfolded within roughly 24 hours of each other in the same city.
City officials offered more detail on those Magic City Classic shootings through a briefing covered by WRBL, which reported that the first shooting happened outside the perimeter of Legion Field more than an hour after Saturday's game and involved six victims. A second shooting followed less than 10 minutes later, across the street from the stadium near food vendors. In total, the two incidents left one person dead and eight others injured, with two victims listed in critical condition and five others stable after being transported.
A City Trending Toward Fewer Homicides
Even with the weekend's violence, Birmingham has been on pace for a notably quieter year than recent history. The city had recorded 37 homicides as of Sunday morning, according to al.com's reporting on the Magic City Classic shootings. Just days earlier, on Oct. 27, the outlet had put the city's homicide count at 36 for the year, compared with 68 slayings recorded at the same point in 2025.
That Oct. 26 death, of 39-year-old Jeremy Jerome Moore in Birmingham's Norwood community, was itself the city's second deadly shooting in two days, al.com reported. The contrast with recent years is stark: Birmingham recorded 152 homicides in all of 2024, a figure described as a city homicide record, according to al.com's coverage of the Magic City Classic shootings. Whether the Midtown death will factor into a continued decline or mark the start of another violent stretch remains to be seen as the investigation continues.
