Dementrius Orlando Collins, a 19-year-old Black male from Birmingham, was killed in a burst of gunfire early on June 5, 2023, in the city’s Kingston community on Roscoe Avenue. Police were sent to the 4600 block just after 12:50 a.m. after multiple ShotSpotter alerts and reports of shots fired, and when officers arrived they found Collins unresponsive in a yard with an apparent gunshot wound.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue pronounced him dead at the scene, and the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office later publicly identified him. Funeral and memorial listings published afterward also confirmed his full name, age, and date of death.
The scene suggested a violent, concentrated attack. Reporting at the time said investigators believed another person had also been shot during the same episode and was found wounded in a vehicle on Interstate 59 South just after the Tallapoosa Street on-ramp. Police said that victim may have been shot on Roscoe Avenue and that someone else appeared to be trying to drive him to the hospital. That second victim survived with injuries described as non-life-threatening. Authorities also said at least 70 rounds were fired, a detail that painted the killing as something far beyond a single shot in the dark, and officers publicly stated they believed the two shootings were connected.
In the days around Collins’ death, city officials and local coverage placed the killing in a wider pattern of violence that had shaken the Kingston neighborhood. Another man, Juanderius Woods, had been killed there roughly a week earlier in a separate shooting that also involved an extraordinary amount of gunfire. Public statements from Birmingham’s mayor emphasized that the killings were believed to be targeted and were not seen as a reflection of the neighborhood’s residents as a whole, but the timing of the two cases underscored how tense and dangerous the area had become. Collins’ death was counted among Birmingham’s homicide investigations for 2023.
As for suspects, arrests, and charges, the available online reporting tied directly to Collins’ killing does not show that anyone was arrested or publicly named as a suspect in his case. Initial coverage on June 5, 2023 reported that no arrests had been made, and in the sources I found there were no later police releases or credible follow-up reports announcing an arrest, warrant, indictment, trial, or conviction specifically for the homicide of Dementrius Orlando Collins. Based on the online record available here, the case appears to have remained publicly unresolved, with no suspect or suspects identified by name in the reporting I located.
