A quiet street in Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood was the scene of a fatal shooting on April 27, 2025. A citizen found the body of a young man inside a triplex on 8th Court West, across from Legion Field. The victim was identified as Richard Alexander Wilson Jr, 28, of Dothan, Alabama; he was born April 30, 1996, in Tifton, Georgia and was a few days shy of his 29th birthday.

Investigators said the circumstances of why Wilson was in Birmingham and the motive for the shooting were not immediately clear. His family in Tifton prepared for a funeral service in his hometown. Less than two weeks after the discovery, police announced the arrest of Sherman Roundtree; he was charged with Wilson’s murder and booked into the Jefferson County Jail held without bond.

What did anyone in the Bush Hills area see on or around April 27 that might explain why Wilson was in that triplex?