Eighteen-year-old Marion Cedric Poole was found shot to death on the evening of June 16, 2025, in an alley in the 4000 block of Avenue H in Birmingham, Alabama. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified Poole, who lived in Fairfield, as the victim.

The investigation remained without an arrest for months after the killing. On November 20, 2025, Birmingham police announced a suspect had been taken into custody and charged with the capital murder of Poole; the suspect was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and held without bond. Authorities also say the suspect was on probation at the time of Poole’s death for a 2021 double shooting that resulted in guilty pleas to attempted murder and first-degree robbery and a split sentence.

Few publicly known details describe the motive or what led to the shooting in the alley. Does anyone who knew Marion or who was in that neighborhood on June 16 have information that could help?