Jesse Dewayne Cummings Sr. was 33 when he was shot and killed in Birmingham on the evening of Friday, November 4, 2022. Officers from the city’s North Precinct responded just after 5:00 p.m. to the 100 block of 50th Street North in the Kingston neighborhood and found Cummings unresponsive in a vehicle with an apparent gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators quickly treated the shooting as the result of an ongoing dispute. Detectives developed a person of interest and obtained a warrant; on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Birmingham police with the Crime Reduction Team arrested 41-year-old Antonio M. Lucas Jr. in the 4300 block of Richard Arrington Jr. Boulevard. The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office charged Lucas with capital murder, and he was booked into Jefferson County Jail held without bond. Police reported the motive as a feud between Cummings and Lucas.

If anyone has information about Cummings, his movements that evening, or the dispute that preceded the shooting, please share what is known.