James Edward Walters Jr., a 32-year-old Black male from Birmingham, Alabama, was found shot to death on June 6, 2014, slumped inside his car at an apartment complex on the 4400 block of 5th Avenue South, across from Birmingham Fire Station No. 10.
The night ended in stillness around the parked vehicle, the kind of quiet that settles after a sudden burst of violence.
What investigators could say publicly, and what later appeared in community tallies of Birmingham homicides, fixed the scene to that stretch of 5th Avenue South: a man in his vehicle, killed by gunfire, discovered where he sat.
Beyond that anchor point, the record turns spare. In the sources available, there is no publicly identified suspect, no announced arrest, and no published account of charges, court proceedings, or a conviction connected to his death. The case remains described only in broad strokes—an identified victim, a location, and a date—while the questions that usually follow a killing in a city neighborhood remain unanswered in the public-facing information: who approached, why it happened, and where the trail led after the shots were fired.
