On the night of December 5, 2021, 17-year-old David Jerome Desmond III was shot and killed on Fulton Avenue Southwest in Birmingham, Alabama. Officers arriving around 10:20 p.m. found the young Black male unresponsive in the street; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting was one of six homicides in the city that weekend, and the community and family were left seeking answers.

Investigators received tips and witness reports that someone fled into a nearby home after the shots were fired. Within days, 24-year-old Daminyae Montreze Harris was arrested at that residence without incident. After consultation with the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, Harris was charged with murder and held on $150,000 bond as proceedings continued.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about David’s final hours, please share what is known with investigators.