Tag: homicide

Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond, talking about the 2023 homicide totals in Birmingham, AL.com, Jan. 1.

By Keisa Sharpe-Jefferson The Birmingham Times Birmingham officials are cautiously optimistic after the city’s homicide rate dropped in 2023, which they hope is a step in...

By Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com Birmingham’s homicide tally in 2023 dropped for the first time in five years after years of steady increases brought the deadly...

Alaina Bookman AL.com This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series “Beyond the Violence: What can be done to address Birmingham’s rising homicide rate.” Timothy Vakakes has seen...

Alaina Bookman AL.com This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series, “Beyond the Violence.” Click here to sign up for the newsletter. Contribute to aid Alaina Bookman's violence prevention...

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times After recent domestic and gun violence deaths in Birmingham, City Council President Wardine Alexander told Mayor Randall Woodfin that city’s...

By  Carol Robinson | crobinson@al.com This is another installment in The Birmingham Times/AL.com/CBS42 joint series “Beyond the Violence: What can be done to address Birmingham’s rising homicide rate.” Sign...

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times Estella Rush-Lewis vividly remembers being in denial when she arrived at the scene where her daughter was murdered. Lakandria "Kandie"...

By Nicole S. Daniel The Birmingham Times There is no closure after losing a child, said Pamela Bass, who lost her 29-year-old son, Antonio “Toni” Bass”,...

By James L. Baggett We need to add another name. We need to add another name to a long but incomplete list of names that includes...