On the late afternoon of November 30, 2021, emergency responders in Birmingham answered a fire at an apartment complex in the 1900 block of 15th Avenue South. First units arrived about 5:40 p.m. and discovered smoke coming from one of the units. Inside, they found 53-year-old Steve Austin Threatt deceased. Investigators determined Threatt had been fatally stabbed and that the fire was believed to have been set after the stabbing.

The Birmingham Police Department opened a homicide investigation. A suspect identified as 44-year-old Jesse Mitchell Owen was arrested and charged in connection with Threatt’s death.

Does anyone who lived in or near the 1900 block of 15th Avenue South in late 2021 remember anything unusual that afternoon or the days before?