Marvin Patrick, a 33-year-old Black man from Birmingham, was shot and killed on November 28, 2016, in the College Hills neighborhood. Police found him inside a car on the 700 block of 8th Terrace West around 11:30 a.m.; investigators said multiple shots were fired into the vehicle and that he appeared to have been asleep when someone approached and opened fire. Patrick died at the scene and the shooter had left before officers arrived.

Police publicly identified Patrick and asked for information from anyone who might have seen something or known a motive. Publicly available coverage and records located for this summary do not show an arrest, charge, trial, or conviction connected to his killing. His obituary recorded his birth date as October 23, 1983; funeral services were held December 3, 2016, at Bushelon’s Chapel with burial at Elmwood Cemetery. Who walked up to that car and pulled the trigger?