In the early morning hours of December 12, 2021, 19-year-old Jeremy Fidel Jackson was found inside an apartment at 956 Pike Road in west Birmingham with a fatal gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel pronounced him deceased shortly after midnight, and police responded to a shots-fired call that led investigators to the residence.

Law enforcement identified a person of interest who was taken into custody for questioning at the scene. Within a couple of days the Birmingham Police Department arrested 20-year-old Laquandre Rashaud Kelly; the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the detectives’ evidence and issued a warrant charging Kelly with murder, with bond set at $100,000 and Kelly held at the Jefferson County Jail.

Few details about the circumstances inside the apartment have been released publicly. If anyone has information about Jeremy, his movements that night, or saw anything on Pike Road around that time, please come forward.