Seventeen-year-old David Jerome Desmond III, a Black male, was found fatally shot and lying in the roadway in the 400 block of Fulton Avenue Southwest in Birmingham on the night of Sunday, December 5, 2021. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene from a gunshot wound.

Desmond’s killing was one of six homicides in Birmingham over a less than 48-hour span that weekend. Police later said a community tip led investigators to identify and arrest Dominio Harris on a murder charge in connection with Desmond’s death.

If anyone knew David Desmond, saw activity in the 400 block of Fulton Avenue SW on December 5, 2021, or has information that could clarify what happened, please come forward.