36-year-old identified as man shot, killed in east Birmingham
Authorities have released the name of a man killed Sunday in east Birmingham.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Jose Luis Reyes. He was 36 and lived in Haleyville.
East Precinct officers were dispatched at 12:30 a.m. to a report of a person shot in the 1000 block of Huffman Road.
They arrived to find Reyes unresponsive on the ground near several businesses, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald.
Birmingham medics took the victim to UAB Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 2:19 p.m.
Details surrounding the investigation are limited, and no arrests have been announced.
Reyes is the city’s 141st homicide this year. Of those, 10 have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.
In all of Jefferson County, there have been 176 homicides including the 141 in Birmingham.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.