In the early hours of February 1, 2025, 22-year-old Xavier Colvert was found unresponsive inside his white pickup truck in the 1400 block of 57th Street in the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham. Responding officers arrived after a ShotSpotter alert for multiple rounds; Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced Colvert dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. Investigators recovered at least a half-dozen shell casings near the passenger side of the vehicle, and police said there was no immediately apparent motive for the shooting.

This was recorded as Birmingham’s ninth homicide of the year and was followed 21 minutes later by another fatal shooting elsewhere in the city. On February 6, 2025, detectives obtained a warrant charging 22-year-old Rickey Darnell Bodden with Colvert’s murder, and U.S. Marshals located and arrested Bodden the next day in the 700 block of First Street North; he was booked into Jefferson County Jail without bond.

Does anyone who knew Xavier or witnessed activity in the 1400 block of 57th Street that night have information to share?