Dyron Malik Mays Perry was 27 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Friday, October 6, 2023. He was in the parking lot of a nightclub in the 800 block of 2nd Avenue North in Birmingham when one or more unknown shooters opened fire shortly after 1 a.m. Perry, a Black male from Midfield, Alabama, was found on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The shooting also killed 22-year-old Jjuan James Cole of Birmingham and left an adult woman with life-threatening injuries. Several vehicles and a nearby business suffered damage from the gunfire. Birmingham Police Department investigators have characterized the incident as a double homicide, say the motive is undetermined, and report no arrests or publicly identified suspects so far.

Anyone who was in the area that night or who may have information about the shooters or the sequence of events is asked to contact Birmingham police.