Tacorya Najuan Love, a 33-year-old Black woman from Birmingham, was killed on July 17, 2017, in the city’s North East Lake area. Her body was found just after 8 a.m. in a grassy area on the 8300 block of 5th Avenue North; early accounts said she had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. Investigators believed she had been injured nearby on the 8400 block of 6th Avenue North and then tried to make her way toward help before collapsing.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified her, and obituary records show she died that same Monday, leaving behind children and family who buried her in Birmingham days later. There is no name of a suspect, no described arrest, and no record here of a prosecution tied to her killing. The case appears in later unsolved or cold-case style listings connected to Birmingham police, leaving the public narrative incomplete.

Did anyone in the East Lake area on July 17, 2017, see Tacorya or something that could help explain what happened to her?