Tacorya Najuan Love, a 33-year-old Black woman from Birmingham, was killed on July 17, 2017, in the city’s North East Lake area. Authorities said her body was found just after 8 a.m. in a grassy area on the 8300 block of 5th Avenue North, and early reporting indicated she had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. Investigators believed she had been injured nearby on the 8400 block of 6th Avenue North and then tried to make her way toward help before collapsing.
What emerges from the public record is a scene that feels especially cruel in its final moments: a woman wounded, moving through East Lake in the morning hours, apparently trying to survive long enough to reach someone, somewhere, before the attempt ran out. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office publicly identified her, and obituary records show she died that same Monday, leaving behind children and family who buried her in Birmingham days later.
As for suspects, arrests, or later court action, publicly available online reporting is thin. The sources I found do not name a suspect, do not describe an arrest, and do not show a prosecution tied to her killing. Birmingham’s homicide data page explains that cases are tracked as either cleared by arrest or open, and Tacorya Love also appears in later unsolved or cold-case style listings tied to Birmingham police, which points to the case remaining publicly unresolved in the sources available online.
So the story that remains in open sources is heartbreakingly incomplete. It begins with Tacorya Love being found after a desperate effort to get help, and it ends, at least in the public record now available, without a named killer, without an announced arrest, and without the kind of courtroom ending that would explain why she died or who was responsible.
