A verbal dispute at a Birmingham auto parts yard turned fatal in mid-October. Seventy-three-year-old Alfred Stephens of Bessemer was shot during an argument at Pull-A-Part on 27th Avenue North on the morning of October 17, 2025. Emergency crews arrived at about 10:01 a.m. and found Stephens unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his side; he was taken to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital and died on October 18, 2025.

Investigators identified 22-year-old Jaden Ellis Sanders of Birmingham as the suspect. On October 20, 2025, members of the Birmingham Police Department’s crime reduction team located and arrested Sanders in the 1100 block of Hayden Road in Warrior; he was to be booked into the Jefferson County Jail.

Are there witnesses or anyone who was at Pull-A-Part that morning who can add details about what led to the altercation?