Durand Lamar Witherspoon, a 22-year-old Black man from Birmingham, was identified as the person killed when gunfire erupted late on April 1, 2019, in the 1200 block of 12th Street North in north Birmingham. Officers and Birmingham Fire and Rescue found Witherspoon with fatal injuries at the scene; two other people were shot and taken to UAB Hospital, including a juvenile reported in critical condition. Investigators said the violence grew out of a gathering where several people had been gambling and that a confrontation during the gambling escalated into a shooting.

Police named 31-year-old Tarek Owens of Birmingham as a suspect and obtained a murder warrant; Owens was arrested and taken into custody on April 8, 2019, and held in the Jefferson County Jail in connection with Witherspoon’s death. Does anyone who attended that gathering or who knows more about what happened that night have information to share?