Deonta Sewayne Pickett, 40, was shot and killed on the night of October 18, 2021, in the Kingston area of Birmingham. Around 10 p.m., alerts from a gunshot-detection system drew South Precinct officers to the 1300 block of 44th Street North, where they found Pickett slumped over in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the apartment complex parking lot. He had been struck by at least one gunshot and was pronounced dead at the scene by Birmingham Fire and Rescue.

Police left the vehicle in place and sealed off the parking area as investigators documented the scene. Early official information about what led up to the shooting was limited while detectives conducted witness interviews and collected evidence.

If anyone saw or heard anything unusual near the complex that night, can you share that information with Birmingham’s homicide unit or Crime Stoppers?