Romeo Bruce Bankhead was a 21-year-old Black man from Bessemer, Alabama, and a young father who was killed by gunfire in Hueytown in October 2023. He was shot at about 1 a.m. on Monday, October 16, 2023, in the 2500 block of 19th Street North and pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 4 a.m., according to the Jefferson County Coroner’s office. Friends and family remembered him after his death, and a memorial page notes he had one child.

Two years earlier, in October 2021, Bankhead—then 19—was one of three men arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with the shooting death of 35-year-old Christopher James Jones during a robbery in Midfield; he was held without bond and the outcome of that case was not publicly reported. The Hueytown Police Department is investigating Bankhead’s homicide; as of October 2023 no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

If anyone knew Romeo, his movements that night, or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.