Reginald Robinson, a 44-year-old man from Birmingham, Alabama, died after a violent encounter outside his home on September 24, 2012. That night, police said he was found suffering from stab wounds in front of a house at 625 4th Court North at about 9:00 p.m. Birmingham Fire and Rescue rushed him to UAB Hospital, but he later died from his injuries.
His obituary confirmed his death date and identified Birmingham as his home, while local homicide records placed his killing among the city’s September 2012 slayings.
What emerged afterward gave the case an especially haunting edge. In a Crime Stoppers appeal issued less than two weeks later, Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said Robinson’s girlfriend told investigators that the two were at home when someone came to the door and called Robinson by name. She believed Robinson must have known the visitor, because he opened the door and spoke with him. Moments later, she heard a struggle outside. When she looked out, she saw the attacker on top of Robinson, stabbing him. That account suggested a face-to-face encounter rather than a random attack, and it left investigators pressing the public for the one thing they seemed to believe was already circulating in the neighborhood: the identity of the person responsible.
Despite that public plea, the case does not appear to have produced an announced arrest in the reporting that surfaced online. The first local news report said no arrests had been made, and the later Crime Stoppers segment showed detectives were still searching for leads. A Birmingham homicide reference page that tracks many of the city’s 2012 cases likewise lists Robinson’s death from stab wounds at the 4th Court North address and notes, simply, no arrest. Based on the online sources available, no suspect was publicly identified by name, and no prosecution, trial, or conviction tied to Robinson’s killing was found in the accessible reporting reviewed here.
That leaves Robinson’s death as the story of a man who answered his own front door and never came back inside. The public version of the case is spare but vivid: a knock, his name called out, a brief exchange, a sudden scuffle in the yard, and a fatal stabbing witnessed in its aftermath by the woman inside. More than a decade later, the online record still points to an investigation that, at least in the sources located, never reached the stage of a publicly named suspect or an arrest.
