Man, 20, dies in south Birmingham shooting that injured woman and 12-year-old boy

A man shot in south Birmingham has died, the second victim to die after multiple Friday night shootings in the city.

Police on Saturday identified the victim as Dorian Jackson. He was 20 and lived in Birmingham.

Just after 9:35 p.m. Friday, South Precinct officers were dispatched to the 200 Block of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard on report of a person shot.

Officers arrived on the scene and were alerted to Jackson lying in a backyard in the 300 Block of Iota Avenue suffering from a gunshot wound.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue personnel arrived and transported the victim to UAB where he died Saturday morning.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said two additional victims, an adult female and a 12-year-old boy showed up via private vehicle at Princeton Baptist Medical Center.

The boy suffered life-threatening injuries, Fitzgerald said.

The preliminary investigation suggests the three victims traveled to the location to meet someone when they were all shot, possibly while inside the vehicle.

No arrests have been made.

Less than two hours earlier, 36-year-old Curtis Holt Jr. was killed in gunfire that also seriously injured another person.

That shooting happened shortly after 8 p.m. in the 3500 block of Hemlock Avenue.

According to Birmingham Fire and Rescue radio communications, one person sustained several gunshot wounds to the chest, and the second victim was shot in the leg.

Fitzgerald said officers arrived on the scene and found both gunshot victims inside a home.

BFRS transported both men to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Holt was pronounced dead at the hospital a short time later. The condition of the second victim was not immediately known.

Fitzgerald said the preliminary investigation suggests a family member of both victims shot them and then fled the scene.

BPD Tactical Unit officers took the suspect into custody in west Birmingham within two hours of the shooting.

Homicide detectives interviewed him, and he is being held at the Birmingham City Jail pending the filing of charges.

After going one month without a homicide, Birmingham had three in six days.

On March 15, 27-year-old Lemijamin Watters was found shot to death at the intersection of Avenue E and 16th Street in Ensley.

So far this year, there have been 19 homicides in Birmingham. In all of Jefferson County, there have been 30, including the 19 in Birmingham.

As of March 22, 2024, there had been 31 homicides in the city and 39 countywide.

Anyone with any information in any of the slayings is asked to call homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.