Shortly after midnight on June 12, 2024, TaDarrius Omar Debodre Jones, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in the parking lot of a small strip mall in the 1400 block of 3rd Avenue West in Birmingham, Alabama. Officers responded to a call of a person shot and found Jones lying face down with an apparent gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Services pronounced him deceased at the scene.

Police say an unknown person approached Jones and opened fire, discharging at least thirty rounds before fleeing. The motive is unclear and the shooting was logged as Birmingham’s 60th murder investigation of 2024. Authorities have asked the public for information, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone has information about who was responsible for TaDarrius Jones’s death or saw activity in that parking lot around 12:20 a.m. on June 12, please come forward.