Lovell Amison III, a 23-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in the Kingston neighborhood of Birmingham on the morning of May 6, 2019. The shooting occurred in the 4500 block of 9th Avenue North inside the Morton Simpson Village public housing community. Birmingham Police’s ShotSpotter system detected gunfire and officers arrived shortly after 9:00 a.m.; Amison was found with a gunshot wound and taken to UAB Hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that day.

The Birmingham Police Department opened a homicide investigation, processed the scene, and interviewed potential witnesses. Some crime-solving organizations have noted the case as solved, but specifics of any resolution are not publicly disclosed.

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