A 20-year-old has been indicted in a 2022 fatal shooting near a Birmingham park.

A Jefferson County grand jury this month indicted Kelan Wayne Hutchins, of Vestavia Hills, on a charge of reckless manslaughter. The indictment was made public Tuesday.

Hutchins is charged in the Sept. 11, 2022, death of Nickelas Kristerpher Kelley. He was 21.

It was just before 11:30 p.m. that Sunday that the city’s gunfire detection system – Shot Spotter – alerted Birmingham police to multiple shots fired near Rozelle Reynolds Park in the 6100 block of Avenue O in the Green Acres neighborhood.

A citizen then flagged down an officer and reported that a person was slumped over outside of a vehicle.

Officers arrived to find Kelley unresponsive on the ground. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 11:57 p.m.

Witnesses told investigators that a group of males had been gathered there, and they fled on foot after the shooting.

More than 20 shots were fired, Law said, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether more than one person was firing the shots.

The indictment against Hutchins said he recklessly caused the death of Kelly by shooting a gun, which caused the victim to be shot.

Hutchins was booked into the Jefferson County Jail on May 23, 2023, and released the following day after posting $30,000 bond.