Roderious Lee White, a 31-year-old Black man from Birmingham, was shot late on the night of November 24, 2015, in the 800 block of 45th Place North in northeast Birmingham. Police were sent there after a 911 call reporting a shooting, and when officers arrived they found him lying on a curb with two gunshot wounds. He was taken to UAB Hospital, but he did not survive. By the next morning, the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office had identified him, turning what had first been a grim, anonymous scene into the story of a named man whose life ended on a Birmingham street.
What emerged publicly in the immediate aftermath was a case that seemed to open in confusion and then fall into silence. Birmingham police said they were searching for a shooting suspect, and homicide detectives took over the investigation, but the early reporting that surfaced online did not name any suspect or explain a clear motive. The public details that did appear painted only the outline of the final moments: a late-night shooting, a neighborhood street, a man found wounded in the road, and detectives asking for help as they tried to piece together what had happened.
In the online sources located, there was no later public report identifying an arrest, naming a defendant, announcing charges, or describing a trial or conviction in White’s killing. The most specific contemporaneous coverage remained the first local accounts from November 25, 2015, which said police were looking for a suspect, while the City of Birmingham’s homicide-data materials define “Open” as a case not solved and separately distinguish that from cases “Cleared by Arrest.” Based on the publicly located reporting and official city dataset descriptions available online, no confirmed arrest or court resolution could be verified from the sources reviewed.
