A late-night dispute outside the Empire Gentleman’s Club on 4th Avenue South in Birmingham turned fatal on the morning of Sunday, August 8, 2021. According to police reports, a verbal argument between individuals escalated to gunfire; officers who arrived found 37-year-old Deandre Keon Howard suffering from a gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators said the shooter fled immediately after the shooting and that the violence grew out of the earlier argument.

Howard was a Birmingham resident. Police appealed for tips that might identify and locate whoever fired the shots. No arrests or public identification of a suspect have been reported since the incident, and the case remains unresolved in the city’s records. If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Deandre, please come forward and share what you know.