Timothy Dean Pinson, 32, was found dead of a gunshot wound in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 800 block of Cable Car Court, just off Valley Avenue in the Birmingham area on New Year’s Day 2022. A community member arriving home discovered him unresponsive inside a silver sedan at about 7:40 a.m.; Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him deceased. Investigators estimated the shooting could have occurred any time between the previous night and the morning he was found.

Born in Bluefield, West Virginia, Pinson was the youngest of six and had previously lived in Gardendale in 2018; authorities asked for help locating relatives and noted he might have family in Sylacauga. Friends and family remembered him as a gifted youth athlete who overcame juvenile arthritis, someone recently back in Alabama after his father’s death, and a person who cared about mental health and homelessness and made his own music. As of early 2022, no arrests had been announced and police asked anyone with information to contact Birmingham Homicide or Crime Stoppers.

Did anyone in the area see a silver sedan or hear anything unusual that night?