Jeffery Tubbs

Jeffery Dion Tubbs, a 41-year-old Black man born on Valentine's Day in 1976, was shot and killed in the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, on the evening of Wednesday, November 1, 2017. At around 6 p.m., Birmingham police responded to a call of a person shot in the 2900 block of Avenue Z. Officers found Tubbs lying on his back on the curb, and Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene. His death was the second homicide Birmingham police worked that same Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Birmingham Public Works employee Grady Jenkins had been shot and killed while mowing grass in the Wylam community. Police did not connect the two killings. Sgt. Bryan Shelton told reporters that police were familiar with Tubbs and that investigators had not determined a motive. Tubbs had recently had interactions with police in a matter in which someone was charged with robbery, but police did not say whether that case had anything to do with his death. No suspect has been publicly named and no arrest has been announced in the killing of Jeffery Tubbs. His family remembered him in an obituary following his death. Anyone with information about the shooting on Avenue Z is asked to contact the Birmingham Police Department Homicide Unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama at 205-254-7777.