David Michael Mike Hammons was a 64-year-old mechanical engineer from Birmingham, Alabama, who died after a violent carjacking and kidnapping in December 2021. On the evening of December 8, 2021, Hammons was at a gas station in Irondale when two people accosted him, stole his vehicle and abducted him. During that crime he was shot and later found critically injured and taken to a local hospital. He died of his wounds on December 12, 2021.

Authorities identified and arrested two suspects: an 18-year-old male and a 19-year-old female. Both were charged with capital murder, the charge tied to a killing that occurred during a kidnapping and robbery. At this stage the legal process was underway and the community and Hammons’s family were awaiting further developments.

If anyone was at the Irondale gas station on the night of December 8, 2021, or has information about the incident, please come forward.