Shalanda Ford, 36, a Black woman from Birmingham, was found dead on April 2, 2009, inside an abandoned home on the 1300 block of Court R in Ensley. Her death is listed among Birmingham’s 2009 homicides, and funeral notices published shortly afterward show services scheduled for April 17, 2009, with burial in Oakland Cemetery. The discovery location—an empty, deserted house in an Ensley neighborhood already marked by violence that year—frames the death as a sudden, stark interruption in a community already dealing with homicide.

The homicide entry associated with Ford’s death shows that there was no arrest, and the reviewed listings and notices do not identify a suspect or any publicly reported charge, trial, or conviction tied to her killing. If anyone knew Shalanda, knew her routines, or has information about the circumstances that led to her being in that abandoned house, please come forward with what you know.