In the early morning hours of July 12, 2021, a group of people in east Birmingham, Alabama, were on their way to work when their day was tragically cut short. An unknown individual approached the group in the 8500 block of 3rd Avenue North just after 4 a.m. and began shooting. The sudden violence left one man, 28-year-old Sergio Hernandez Leiva, dead at the scene.
According to the preliminary investigation by the Birmingham Police Department, the assailant fled after the shooting.
At the time of the initial reports, authorities had not made any arrests in connection with the killing of the Hispanic male. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear, and no suspect or suspects were publicly identified. The investigation into the death of Sergio Hernandez Leiva began as a search for an unknown shooter who had vanished after the fatal encounter.
