Tepe Edwards, 43, was shot on the evening of December 23, 2017, on 32nd Place North behind Norwood Elementary School in Birmingham’s Norwood neighborhood. He was taken to UAB Hospital and pronounced dead. Birmingham police processed the scene and opened an investigation, but the case later faded from headlines with few public updates.

In August 2019 another man, Tommy Laneer Woods, was fatally shot on the same block. A Crime Solvers report said Woods had been involved in the 2017 shooting that killed Edwards, but the report did not specify whether Woods had been treated as a suspect or a person of interest. It is not publicly known if any other suspects were identified or if arrests were made, nor has the case’s formal status been announced.

Does anyone with knowledge of the Norwood neighborhood or these incidents have information that could help clarify what happened to Tepe Edwards?