Erving Karland Gray of Birmingham, Alabama, was 49 when he was found unresponsive at a residence on Second Street North around 7:00 a.m. on August 6, 2024, and pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy by the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office determined his death resulted from a severe seizure caused by a gunshot wound to the head he suffered on September 15, 1992. Because the fatal injury dated to that shooting, his death was ruled a homicide.

Gray was 17 when he was shot multiple times in 1992; a suspect was arrested and charged with attempted murder at that time but died in 1997. His mother, Josephine Cunningham, cared for him through decades of health complications tied to those injuries. A funeral service was held on August 17, 2024, at Faith Memorial Chapel in Bessemer.

Did anyone in Birmingham know Erving or have information about the 1992 shooting?