Antonio Lamont Smither was 42 when he was found shot to death in a yard at 4124 38th Avenue North in Birmingham, Alabama. His body was discovered on Sunday, July 6, 2008; the killing remains unsolved and no suspects have been publicly named.

Both homicides were linked in reporting because of connections to the 1995 murder of Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy William Hardy, a separate high-profile case in which multiple men were at various times charged or investigated. One of those men later convicted was Toforest Johnson; others had charges dismissed, and Wilson’s death is mentioned among those dismissals.

Both Smither’s and Wilson’s murders were among the 88 homicides recorded in Birmingham in 2008; investigators have not announced an arrest in Smither’s killing. Did anyone in the neighborhood around 38th Avenue North in July 2008 see or hear anything that could help move this case forward?