On the night of Friday, March 21, 2025, a burst of gunfire in Birmingham, Alabama, critically injured Dorian Jackson, a 20-year-old Black man. The shooting also wounded an adult woman and a 12-year-old boy who were with him. Mr. Jackson would not survive his injuries.
The incident unfolded around 9:35 p.m. in the North Titusville neighborhood.
Officers with the Birmingham Police Department’s South Precinct were first sent to the 200 block of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard on a report of a person shot. When they arrived, they were directed to a backyard in the 300 block of Iota Avenue, where they found Mr. Jackson suffering from a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel rushed him to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries, and he was pronounced dead there on the morning of Saturday, March 22.
Shortly after Mr. Jackson was found, the two other victims arrived at Princeton Hospital by private vehicle. The woman was an adult, and the 12-year-old boy had sustained life-threatening injuries. The police department’s preliminary investigation suggested that the three had traveled in a vehicle to the Iota Avenue location to meet someone when they were all fired upon, possibly while they were still inside their car. Mr. Jackson’s death was recorded as the city's 19th homicide of 2025.
The investigation led to a swift arrest. On Tuesday, March 25, the Birmingham Police Department’s Crime Reduction Team took a 16-year-old male suspect into custody at a home in East Birmingham. Two days later, on March 27, the Jefferson County Magistrate’s Office issued six arrest warrants against the teenager.
The suspect was charged as an adult with capital murder for the death of Dorian Jackson. He also faced two counts of attempted murder for the wounding of the woman and child, as well as charges for discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, and certain persons forbidden to possess a pistol. As of April 2025, the case was pending litigation.
