A man shot to death Thursday night in Birmingham’s Smithfield community has now been identified.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Friday identified the victim as Reginald Dewayne Tolbert. He was 51 and lived in Birmingham.

The deadly shooting happened at 6:45 p.m. in the 300 block of Second Avenue North.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said officers arrived the location to find Tolbert unresponsive in an abandoned building. He was taken by Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 7:59 p.m.

Wade said Tolbert and the suspect were acquaintances. The suspect approached the victim and began a verbal argument when the suspect shot Tolbert and fled the scene, Wade said.

The suspect was taken into custody a short time later. He was booked into the Birmingham City Jail at 10:44 p.m. Thursday and remains held pending formal warrants.

Tolbert is Birmingham 103rd homicide this year. Of those, one was an officer-involved shooting by an outside law enforcement agency and seven others have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 145 homicides including the 103 in Birmingham.

Anyone with additional information in Tolbert’s slaying is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.