It’s been four years since two 18-year-old best friends were gunned down in an east Birmingham neighborhood and police are again asking for anyone with information to come forward.

Ivey Carter Wilson III and Kendall Lee Shack were shot to death on Dec. 8, 2019. Friends for much of their young lives, they died just feet from each other.

East Precinct officers were dispatched about 5:20 p.m. that Sunday to the 200 block of Tucker Avenue. When they arrived, they found the teens unresponsive in the road.

Both were pronounced dead moments later.

“When you saw Kendall, you saw Ivey,’’ Wilson’s mother, Monica Harris, told AL.com after their deaths. “They grew up together.”

The teens had previously attended Carver High School but were no longer enrolled.

Both were taking part in Job Corps, a U.S. Department of Labor program that offers free-of-charge education and vocational training to young men and women ages 16 to 24.

“He had done a 360 in his life,’’ Harris said of her son. “They loved him there.”

Harris said her son on that Sunday night had walked to the neighborhood store to buy some snacks. When he didn’t return home, his girlfriend went in search for him and that’s when she saw the police lights and crime scene tape.

She called Harris who, along with Shack’s mother, both rushed to the scene.

They had to wait a couple of hours before detectives took them inside the crime scene to officially identify their sons via photos taken at the scene.

Sharon F. Giddens said she knew Shack and his mother from church and described him as a “very nice man” who always helped others. She said the teens were preparing to return to Job Corp on Sunday night when the shooting happened.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said details are limited in the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.