Derick Lemonte Williams, 40, of Birmingham, was found wounded and unresponsive outside an apartment in the 1000 block of 12th Street North on November 10, 2020, after a burst of gunfire at the Fountain Heights residence. Inside the apartment officers found 65-year-old Loretta Frazier dead and two other adults suffering gunshot wounds. Investigators tied the violence to a domestic situation and said the address had a recent domestic report within the prior 24 hours.

Police described Williams as the believed aggressor: he had previously been in a romantic relationship with one of the surviving women, allegedly came to the apartment and opened fire. A man inside the apartment, wounded but able to respond, returned fire and struck Williams, who then fled or staggered outside before collapsing. No arrest was made in connection with Williams’s death after investigators later concluded the person who shot him acted in self-defense.

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