Jeffery Juantez Hines was 24 when he was fatally shot outside his ex-girlfriend’s home in the 200 block of 16th Place Southwest in Birmingham on the evening of May 9, 2014. His brother took him to Princeton Baptist Medical Center, but Hines succumbed to his injuries.

Authorities identified 27-year-old Melvin Anthony Burks as the primary suspect and a murder warrant was issued. Burks turned himself in on May 27, 2014, and was charged with the killing. In 2016 the murder charge was dismissed after Hines’s ex-girlfriend, a key witness who was at the scene, could not be located to testify, and the prosecution could not proceed without her account.

Anyone who knew Jeffery, was in that neighborhood that night, or has information about the shooting or the witness is asked to come forward.