Dariuse Dewayne Benson, 37, was killed in a mass shooting on the evening of August 25, 2022, along Finley Boulevard in Birmingham. Officers responding to a report of a person shot found Benson with an apparent gunshot wound in the 100 block of Finley Boulevard West; Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting occurred shortly before 10 p.m. and was one of two related incidents that night.

A second, related shooting at the intersection of 1st Street North and 16th Avenue North left an adult man and an adult woman with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries; they and additional victims were treated, bringing the total to one fatality and six injured across both scenes. No arrests or suspects have been publicly named and the Birmingham Police Department is investigating. If anyone witnessed the shootings or has information about what happened that night, please come forward.