On May 31, 2023, just before 2:00 p.m., officers from the East Precinct responded to a shooting call at a triplex in the 900 block of 52nd Way North in Birmingham. Inside one of the units they found Anthony James Embry, a 29-year-old Black man, with a gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel arrived to find him unresponsive; he was pronounced dead at 2:19 p.m. The department described the death as an apparent assault and opened a homicide investigation.

Detectives say other people were in the triplex when the shooting occurred, but it is not publicly known whether Embry lived there. Police characterized the incident as isolated. As of June 2023, no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Birmingham Police Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777; a cash reward may be available for tips that lead to an arrest.

Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that afternoon?