Curtis Alvis Ware, a 66-year-old Black man from Birmingham, Alabama, was killed on September 22, 2022, in the city’s Inglenook community. That morning, around 8:46 a.m., Birmingham dispatchers received a 911 call reporting a person down in the 4100 block of 43rd Avenue North. When East Precinct officers arrived, they found Ware suffering from a gunshot wound.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, and police opened a homicide investigation almost immediately, turning an ordinary Birmingham morning into the kind of sudden, brutal ending that leaves a neighborhood stunned and family members searching for answers that do not come easily.
Public reporting on the case has remained spare and somber, offering the outline of what happened but very little about why. The early accounts show that Ware was found outside in Inglenook and that investigators treated the shooting as a homicide from the outset. His death was one more violent rupture in a city long familiar with gunfire, but the details that might explain who wanted him dead, what led up to the shooting, or whether anyone nearby saw the attack were not laid out in the reports that followed. Instead, the case entered that painful category of killings where the victim is identified, the scene is known, and the motive remains in the shadows.
As for suspects and arrests, the clearest reporting available said there was no one in custody when police identified Ware publicly. Investigators asked anyone with information to contact the Birmingham Police Department’s Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers, a sign that detectives were still trying to build the case from leads coming in from the public. In the online sources located here, no suspect was named, and no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction tied to Ware’s killing was reported. Based on the available public coverage I found, the case was still being presented as an unsolved homicide rather than one that had been cleared by arrest.
