An afternoon dispute in Ensley, a neighborhood of Birmingham, ended in gunfire on April 18, 2024, leaving 21-year-old Anthony Lambert Jr. dead. Police say Lambert, a Black man from Birmingham, was involved in a dispute with one or two other men shortly before the shooting. Officers were alerted by ShotSpotter about 4:20 p.m. to the 5700 block of Court I and were told while en route that a person was lying unresponsive in the front yard of a home on 58th Street. Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced Lambert deceased at the scene; the shooter or shooters had already fled when officers arrived.

That same day an adult male turned himself in at Birmingham Police Department Headquarters. He was identified as Gary Steele, 33, of Bessemer. After detectives presented their information to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, a murder warrant was obtained on April 19 and Steele was charged in connection with Lambert’s death. Steele was held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond and the case was set to proceed through the courts as of April 2024.

If anyone witnessed the dispute or has information about what happened that afternoon, please share what you know.