Alajah Patric Fairfax was 20 when she was fatally shot on the evening of Saturday, July 8, 2023, in Birmingham, Alabama. Officers first responded around 6:05 PM to the 6800 block of 66th Street South for a report of a shooting and found 19-year-old Corey Louis Jr. wounded in the roadway. A short time later a vehicle matching the description of one that fled that scene was located at Woodlawn High School, where Fairfax was found unresponsive in the passenger seat with a fatal gunshot wound; another woman who had been driving was also shot.

Investigators say the violence grew out of a domestic dispute between Fairfax and Louis, who shared a child. Authorities concluded Louis shot Fairfax and the other woman and then shot himself; Louis was taken to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died. The incident was ruled a murder-suicide, leaving the couple’s child without either parent.

If anyone remembers the events of the evening of July 8, 2023, or has information about what happened, please come forward to assist the ongoing inquiry.