On the late afternoon of September 30, 2023, a reported traffic accident on Warrior Road in Birmingham revealed a homicide. Officers at the 2000 block found 24-year-old Micah Honor inside a wrecked black sedan with a gunshot wound; Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators say an unknown assailant fired into his vehicle in the 2100 block of Bessemer Road, after which Honor kept driving until his car collided with another vehicle and then a construction fence near abandoned apartments. The other vehicle’s occupants were not injured.

Micah Honor, a resident of Adamsville and a United States Marine veteran, graduated from Minor High School and enlisted in 2018, completing one term that ended in Norfolk, Virginia. Family remember him for his exuberant personality and love of people, cooking, cars, and dogs; his mother, Aneta Honor, has appealed for answers as no arrests have been announced. If anyone has information about the shooting or the movements on Bessemer Road that afternoon, please come forward.