On the afternoon of March 26, 2020, 33-year-old Khalia Sturdivant was found in an alley in the East Lake neighborhood of Birmingham with a gunshot wound after officers responded to a reported burglary in the 7800 block of 1st Avenue North. Paramedics transported Sturdivant to UAB Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Birmingham Police Department classified the incident as a homicide and opened an investigation.

Detectives worked the case in the weeks that followed but faced challenges. Sturdivant’s death was noted as part of a rising pattern of violence in the city at that time, and his family and community were left seeking answers.

Does anyone with knowledge of events around 1st Avenue North on March 26, 2020, have information that could help investigators?