Corey Duskin, a 29-year-old Black man from Birmingham, was shot on the evening of December 12, 2020, in the Roosevelt neighborhood, in what unfolded as a sudden and deadly burst of violence at 5909 Ellington Street. Birmingham police were dispatched around 6:20 p.m. and found him wounded inside a vehicle, seated in the driver’s seat. He was taken to the hospital, but he did not survive.
Early reporting said investigators believed he may have been involved in some kind of verbal altercation before the shooting, suggesting that whatever happened in those final moments escalated fast and without mercy.
What emerges from the available public reporting is a grim, spare outline rather than a full explanation. There was no immediate account of a named gunman, no public description of a suspect detailed in the sources I found, and no indication in that initial coverage that anyone had been taken into custody. The case entered Birmingham’s homicide record as one more life cut short in a city struggling through a violent year, and the public version of the story appears to have remained painfully brief: a man in a car, a shooting after an apparent dispute, and a family left with no public answer as to who pulled the trigger.
As for arrests and later case developments, the online sources I located did not show a suspect being publicly identified, arrested, charged, tried, or convicted in Corey Duskin’s killing. Bhamwiki’s running homicide summary still lists the case with no arrest, and Birmingham’s homicide data page explains that cases marked open are cases not solved. Based on the public material available through those sources, the killing appears to have remained unsolved in the record I was able to find.
