On the evening of Tuesday, April 1, 2025, officers responded to a Person Shot call in the 1100 block of Avenue F in Birmingham and found 42-year-old Stephen Kemp inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound. Kemp, a white male from nearby Irondale, was taken to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died, turning an initial felony assault investigation into a homicide—the city’s 20th murder investigation of the year.

Detectives from the Birmingham Police Department’s Homicide Unit and the Crime Reduction Team canvassed the neighborhood and identified 22-year-old Demetrius Henry, a Black male from Birmingham, as the primary suspect. On April 3, 2025, the Crime Reduction Team and Tactical Unit located and arrested Henry at an apartment complex on Beacon Parkway. A Jefferson County magistrate issued a warrant for Capital Murder with a robbery specification; Henry was booked into Jefferson County Jail and is being held without bond.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or saw activity on Avenue F around 7:00 PM on April 1, please share what is known.