A family gathering in Ensley, Birmingham, meant to follow a funeral, ended in a double homicide on the night of December 6, 2025. Seventy-six-year-old Carlton Rufus Allen, known to family as Uncle Blue, and 43-year-old Sonny Arrington were shot and killed at the Tuxedo Terrace apartment complex on 20th Place shortly before midnight. The two had been attending a repast after the funeral of another relative, Jawori Brown Allen, who had been killed in late November.

Police say an argument at the gathering escalated and a family member opened fire. A woman who survived was wounded; authorities arrested 35-year-old Jasmine Renae Allen, identified as the niece and great-niece of the victims, and charged her with two counts of capital murder and one count of attempted murder. She was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and is being held without bond. Few other details about the sequence of events or motive have been released.

If anyone attended the funeral or the repast and saw what happened that night, please share what you know with investigators.