In the early hours of Saturday, March 9, 2024, a private vehicle rushed an unresponsive Lamar King to Princeton Baptist Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama. He arrived at about 2:20 a.m. with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. King was 41 and is survived by family and friends.

Birmingham Police launched a homicide investigation. Detectives’ preliminary findings indicated King may have been shot while inside a vehicle in the Mason City neighborhood, in the 1900 block of 13th Way Southwest. Five days after the shooting, on March 14, 2024, authorities arrested 30-year-old Kelvin Andra Edwards Jr. at a residence in East Birmingham; he was charged with capital murder and booked into the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Investigators said they had not determined whether King was the intended target.

The murder of Lamar King remains unsolved. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Birmingham Police Department Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777. Have any readers in Mason City or who were in the area that night seen or heard anything relevant?