Seventeen-year-old Tynez Lloyd Durden was shot on the evening of Monday, October 17, 2022, while standing in a parking lot in the 7700 block of Sunrise Lane in Birmingham, Alabama. Emergency crews arrived about 6:40 p.m. and found Durden with a gunshot wound; he was taken to Children’s of Alabama and died of his injuries three days later on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Durden was a student at Woodlawn High School and his death deeply affected his family, friends, and school community.

Birmingham Police have classified the incident as a homicide and say it was a drive-by shooting. If anyone was in the Sunrise Lane area that evening or has information about the vehicle or persons involved, please come forward.