Nicholas Smith was 23 when he was shot on the night of Friday, May 1, 2015, in Birmingham, Alabama, in a neighborhood identified around 44th Street and 12th Court North. Police were first called to a home with blood on the sidewalk but no victim; Smith was already being driven toward help by a relative with his girlfriend alongside him. Doctors treated him at UAB Hospital, but he died there the next day, Saturday, May 2, 2015, from a gunshot wound to the head.

Police opened a homicide investigation and described the central task plainly: find whoever was responsible. No suspect was publicly named and no arrest was announced at the time; the killing was logged among Birmingham’s 2015 homicides with no arrest listed. Smith’s obituary gives his dates as November 2, 1991, to May 2, 2015, and funeral arrangements were handled by Eastside Funeral Home in Birmingham.

Who was present that night and where the shooter went after the shot are still unanswered — anyone with information about the Kingston-area shooting near 44th and 12th Court North is asked to come forward.