On the early evening of January 17, 2025, around thirty-six gunshots were reported in the 600 block of 26th Street Southwest in Birmingham, Alabama. Officers from the West Precinct found 24-year-old Jeshaun Chambers unresponsive in the roadway; Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene. A nearby woman suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and was taken to a hospital.

A third person, 21-year-old Amont’e Demond Jones, later arrived at a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Detectives identified Jones as the suspect in Chambers’ killing. After receiving medical treatment Jones was taken into custody and the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office issued warrants charging him with Murder, Assault in the Second Degree, and Discharging a Firearm into an Occupied or Unoccupied Dwelling. He is being held in the Jefferson County Jail. This was Birmingham’s fifth homicide investigation of 2025.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on 26th Street Southwest or has information about what led to the altercation, please share what is known.