Romello Pritchard, a 21-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was shot to death in the early morning hours of March 6, 2016, in the 2300 block of 7th Place Northwest in the Sun Valley area near Jefferson State Community College. Birmingham police say East Precinct officers were dispatched about 5:15 a.m. on a person-shot call and found him on the ground with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing was one of three homicides the department was handling that same day on the city’s north side.

Initial public reporting emphasized an active investigation but provided few concrete details: no suspect was publicly identified, no motive was described, and accounts did not lay out any confrontation leading to the gunfire. Funeral notices and an obituary confirm he was born January 27, 1995, and died March 6, 2016, with services held in Birmingham the following week. The contemporaneous reporting available indicated the case remained publicly unresolved in the days after the shooting.

If anyone knew Romello, his routines, or saw anything in the Sun Valley area around 5 a.m. on March 6, 2016, please come forward with information.