Antwon Hawkins, a 37-year-old Black man visiting from California, was found fatally shot on a sidewalk in the Tom Brown Village public housing community in Birmingham on the evening of February 2, 2017. Neighbors in the 4100 block of Fifth Court North reported hearing gunfire; Birmingham police arrived to find Hawkins suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at 8:43 p.m. He had been in town to attend the funeral of another family member when he was killed, compounding the family’s grief.

Antwon’s death followed the October 9, 2016, fatal shooting of his first cousin, 23-year-old Rakim Hawkins, in Birmingham’s Kingston neighborhood. The Birmingham Police Department opened a homicide investigation into Antwon’s killing, but no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been made. The case remains unsolved and the family continues to seek answers.

If anyone knew Antwon, his movements in Birmingham that day, or has information about the shooting, please share what is known.