On a Sunday evening at the Circle K on Tallapoosa Street, 25-year-old Demetrius Antwan Davis Jr. was pumping gas when someone approached and opened fire. He collapsed in the parking lot with his vehicle still at the pump and was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators described the shooting as an ambush and tied it to retaliation rather than a chance encounter.

In the days after the killing, officers identified Byron Dedric Steele as a suspect. Steele was arrested on March 28, 2023, and booked into the Jefferson County Jail in Birmingham on a capital-murder charge connected to this death and a separate charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a pistol. A grand jury indicted Steele in February 2024, keeping the matter in the courts.

Demetrius’s death revived a family trauma: his father had been shot and killed at a different Birmingham gas station in 2018, another killing described as targeted. Does anyone have information about Demetrius’s routine at that Circle K or about the events leading up to the shooting?