James Darryl Kinnion, a 46-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was killed on January 26, 2015, in the Collegeville neighborhood. Police were called that morning to 33rd Avenue North and 34th Street North and found him outside with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials classified the death as a homicide.

There is no widely reported narrative of an argument, robbery, or confrontation, and no publicly identified suspect was named in early coverage. Investigators treated the case as a homicide and the investigation was described as continuing; later Birmingham homicide listings continued to show the case without an arrest.

An obituary noted Kinnion’s ties to Birmingham and funeral services at Twenty Fifth Avenue Baptist Church with burial at Zion Memorial, a reminder of the person behind the brief police account. Does anyone from Collegeville or who knew James have information that could help clarify what happened that morning?