Tavares Smith, 36, of Birmingham, Alabama, was killed on February 15, 2017, while riding in a maroon Buick with his girlfriend along Stouts Road. Gunfire erupted from outside the vehicle; Smith was left slumped in the driver’s seat with a fatal wound and his girlfriend suffered a grazing bullet wound. Investigators treated the attack as targeted, citing a long-running dispute connected to Smith that they said helped explain why his car was shot at that day.

Days after the shooting, detectives named a suspect. Broderick Collins, 36, was arrested and booked into the Jefferson County Jail on March 6, 2017, and charged with capital murder. A celebration of life was scheduled for Smith on March 4, 2017, at Bushelon Funeral Chapel; he was born April 26, 1980. If anyone has information about the dispute or the shooting on Stouts Road, please come forward.