On the evening of August 4, 2018, 36-year-old Sikeisha Lanette Mitchell was found unresponsive in her Southside Birmingham apartment at 909 23rd Street South with a gunshot wound to the head. Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel responded but she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Initial uncertainty about whether the shooting was accidental or intentional shifted as investigators learned a domestic argument had occurred shortly before the gunshot. Detectives identified witnesses who provided information, and the death was ultimately ruled a homicide.

Two days later, on August 6, 2018, police arrested 37-year-old Anthony Needham, described as Mitchell’s boyfriend, and charged him with murder; he was booked into the Jefferson County Jail with bond set at $100,000.

If anyone in Birmingham knew Sikeisha or witnessed events at or near 909 23rd Street South that night, please come forward with information.