Brittney Lashawn Junious, 32, a female from Birmingham, was shot on the afternoon of August 3, 2019, after police were called to the 5000 block of Warner Street in the Roosevelt City area at about 3:45 p.m. Officers found her badly wounded on the sidewalk with gunshot injuries to the head and face, and she was rushed to UAB Hospital. The next day, at 3:25 p.m.
on August 4, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office confirmed that she had died from those injuries, turning a violent neighborhood call into a homicide case and leaving her family to move from shock to funeral arrangements within days.
The reports that surfaced afterward painted the shooting as the end of a personal confrontation rather than a random act. Publicly available accounts identified Melissa King, 31, of Birmingham, as the suspect. She was charged with murder in Junious’ death and was reported to be held in the Jefferson County Jail. A separate locally compiled homicide record, citing contemporaneous reporting, said King and Junious had been involved in an ongoing romantic relationship and that King called police from a Family Dollar on Bessemer Super Highway, admitting to the shooting.
Beyond that arrest, the online record that is openly accessible is thin. I did not locate a reliable, clearly attributable online source confirming a later trial, plea, conviction, or final court disposition in Junious’ case. What the available reporting does establish is the core arc of the case: Brittney Lashawn Junious was shot in Birmingham on August 3, 2019, died the following day at UAB Hospital, and Melissa King was arrested and charged with murder in connection with her death.
