Nia Peoples was 30 when she died after a morning shooting in west Birmingham on October 12, 2021. Police were dispatched at about 7:35 a.m. to the 1600 block of 8th Avenue West, where Birmingham Fire and Rescue and officers found her unresponsive in a front yard with a gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene and publicly identified the next day. Obituary details list her birth as June 30, 1991, and show a funeral held in Birmingham, the city she called home.

Investigators later released a detail that complicates the timeline: Peoples had been seen getting out of a small dark SUV shortly before she collapsed. A preliminary account suggested she may have been shot at a nearby location and then made it only as far as the yard where she was found. The homicide investigation was active and publicly unresolved as described in reports through early 2023. Few additional public details have been released.

If anyone knew Nia or saw a small dark SUV in the 1600 block of 8th Avenue West that morning, please share what was seen.