On the morning of June 8, 2024, a verbal dispute at the Carson Crest Apartment Complex in Birmingham, Alabama turned deadly when 23-year-old Zetarius Free and another man exchanged gunfire on Carson Road. Both men were shot and taken by private vehicles to St. Vincent’s East Hospital, where medical staff pronounced Zetarius Free deceased. The other man survived with life-threatening injuries.

A stray bullet also struck an adult woman; she was found at a nearby church and taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators with the Birmingham Police Department presented the findings to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, which reviewed the evidence and ruled Free’s death a justifiable homicide. No criminal charges were filed against the other individual involved.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who saw the confrontation at Carson Crest that could add details about what happened?