On the evening of September 3, 2025, 82-year-old Aldorthia Burrell was sitting on the front porch of her home on Balsam Avenue in the Jones Valley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, with her daughter when a nearby argument and subsequent gunfire ended with a stray bullet piercing the glass of her front door and striking her in the head. She was taken to UAB Hospital and pronounced dead less than an hour later.

Burrell was remembered as the matriarch of a large family who had just celebrated her 82nd birthday and was devoted to her church and relatives, including three children and multiple grandchildren, great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild. Her death prompted community outrage and renewed calls to end gun violence; Crime Stoppers raised the reward for information to $10,000.

On September 16, 2025, police arrested a 17-year-old male and charged him with capital murder; his name was not released because of his age and he is being held without bond in the Jefferson County Jail. Does anyone in Jones Valley have information about the argument or the shooting that led to this tragic loss?