A Birmingham man died a day after he was assaulted at a Wylam convenience store and authorities say his death is being investigated as a homicide.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Friday announced the death and identified the victim as Cedric Orlando Reese. He was 58.

Authorities said the assault happened at 1:57 p.m. on July 12 at the 5 Way Convenience Store on Eighth Avenue in Wylam. Reese sustained blunt force trauma, but not additional details were released.

The next day, said Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates, a friend went to check on Reese and found him unresponsive inside his home on Fifth Avenue in Wylam. He was pronounced dead on the scene at 2:57 p.m.

Yates said the autopsy showed Reese died from the injuries sustained in the assault.

It was not immediately clear if any arrests have been made.

Reese is Birmingham’s 79th 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 111 homicides, including the 79 in Birmingham.