On the night of Friday, March 21, 2025, gunfire in Birmingham’s North Titusville neighborhood critically wounded 20-year-old Dorian Jackson. Officers were initially sent to the 200 block of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard around 9:35 p.m. and were directed to a backyard in the 300 block of Iota Avenue, where Jackson was found with a gunshot wound. He was taken to UAB Hospital and pronounced dead on the morning of March 22.

Two other people who had been with Jackson were also wounded: an adult woman and a 12-year-old boy. Both went to Princeton Hospital by private vehicle, and the boy sustained life-threatening injuries. Police say the three had driven to the Iota Avenue location to meet someone and were fired upon, possibly while still inside their car. Jackson’s death was recorded as Birmingham’s 19th homicide of 2025.

On March 25 the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime Reduction Team arrested a 16-year-old male at a home in East Birmingham. Warrants issued March 27 charged the teen as an adult with capital murder in Jackson’s death, two counts of attempted murder, discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling and into an occupied vehicle, and certain persons forbidden to possess a pistol. The case was pending litigation as of April 2025.

If anyone witnessed the shooting, the meeting at Iota Avenue that night, or saw the vehicle involved, can you share what you know?