On the evening of June 17, 2010, 24-year-old Keith Orlando Hilson was fatally shot in the 4600 block of Terrace S in Birmingham’s Central Park neighborhood. Hilson had just left a house where his niece and her mother lived when he reportedly exchanged words with someone who pulled up in a vehicle. Moments later, fire from an AK-47 struck Hilson five times in the face, killing him at the scene.

Two other people were hit in the shooting. RaSheed Ali Ward, who had been standing nearby, was wounded in the abdomen and died about an hour later at UAB Hospital. A third victim survived gunshot wounds to the arm and hip. Although witnesses were present, including the woman at the home and the surviving victim, police initially received little cooperation and the case went cold. By December 2013 a $20,000 reward was offered; families held vigils and several neighborhood households reportedly moved away after the violence. Funeral services for Keith Hilson were held June 30, 2010.

No arrests or suspects have been publicly identified and the double homicide remains unsolved. Anyone with information about that night is asked to come forward.