Ronald Ray Cook, a 45-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was fatally shot inside a home on Lisa Lane in the Roebuck area on the evening of Friday, February 12, 2016. Police were dispatched just before 8 p.m. to the 600 block after a report of a shooting. A family member had found Cook badly wounded; he was taken to UAB Hospital and died the following day, February 13, 2016.

Investigators noted there were no signs of forced entry and said Cook may have known the person who shot him or had allowed that person inside, a detail that frames the case as potentially personal rather than a random break-in. Public accounts available after the incident did not identify a suspect, provide a motive, or give a full sequence of events, and listings tracking Birmingham homicides indicated no arrest had been made.

Anyone with information about who came to the door that night, what was said, or what was seen is asked to contact the Birmingham Police Department’s homicide unit.