A targeted shooting in Norwood Bottoms on the evening of December 13, 2023, left 19-year-old Kayla De’Nae Hall dead. Hall, a Black woman and recent Spain Park High School graduate who enjoyed doing hair and nails, was in a white Ford Focus in the 1700 block of 32nd Place North when a burst of gunfire struck the vehicle. Kayla and 25-year-old Keithan Parker were found with gunshot wounds inside the car; both were pronounced dead there.

A third woman, critically injured, managed to drive the riddled Ford to a Chevron on 12th Avenue North, where first responders arrived and took the surviving woman to hospital with life-threatening injuries. Birmingham police have opened a double homicide investigation, offered a reward for tips, and say no arrests or public suspect identifications have been made. Kayla’s mother has publicly appealed for answers and maintains her daughter was an innocent bystander.

If anyone has information about that night or the people involved, please come forward.