DeWarren Lovell Gibson was 21 when he was shot in the early morning hours of April 28, 2021, in a breezeway at the Hunter Ridge apartment complex in Irondale, a suburb of Birmingham. First responders found Gibson with a gunshot wound; he was taken to UAB Hospital and died the following day. He is described as a resident of Birmingham.

Irondale police arrested 20-year-old Antonio Maurice Sparks Jr. within days and charged him with Gibson’s murder. Sparks was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and held on a $75,000 bond. The motive has not been released as investigators continued to piece together what happened at the apartment complex.

If anyone was at Hunter Ridge on the morning of April 28, 2021, or has information about events in the breezeway that night, please come forward.