Lazonathan Rhodes, 25, was shot and killed in the parking lot of Roebuck Plaza Shopping Center in Birmingham on the afternoon of Friday, March 19, 2021. Officers were called to 9120 Parkway East at about 3:50 p.m.; Rhodes was found with gunshot wounds and was transported to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. A second person who had been shot with non-life-threatening injuries went to St. Vincent’s East Hospital by private vehicle. Several nearby vehicles were struck by bullets but no businesses or other bystanders were reported hit.

Police identified 18-year-old Ja’Marcus Jordan of Hueytown as a suspect. Detectives presented the case to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, which issued a murder warrant on April 13, 2021; Jordan was taken into custody at a McCalla residence on April 16, 2021, where officers also seized five firearms and an unspecified amount of narcotics. Jordan was charged with Rhodes’s murder and held on $250,000 bond. Rhodes, born August 13, 1995, to John Rhodes and Emma Jones, was the 19th homicide victim recorded in Birmingham in 2021.

Are there witnesses who were in the Roebuck Plaza parking lot that afternoon or anyone with dashcam or surveillance footage that could help clarify what sparked the dispute?