No foul play suspected in death of missing Birmingham man found after motorcycle crash

No foul play is suspected in the weekend death of a 31-year-old Birmingham man reported missing Friday, along with one of his friends.

Cortez Rashaad Thomas, 31, was killed and Teshonda Means, 26, injured when they crashed in Birmingham’s Druid Hills community.

Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates said Thomas was killed when his Can-Am Ryker 3-wheel motorcycle crashed into an abandoned house in the 2000 block of 15th Avenue North.

Authorities don’t know when the crash happened, but Thomas was discovered and pronounced dead at 10:17 a.m. Sunday.

Thomas and Means were last seen about 7:30 p.m. Friday in Birmingham’s Norwood community. The friends were riding a three-wheel motorcycle, which was captured on someone’s home surveillance camera.

Family reported them missing on Saturday morning.

On Sunday morning, passersby found Means walking in northern Birmingham. She had been ejected from the motorcycle and was injured.

Once found, she was taken to the hospital.

A short time later, shortly before 10 a.m., Thomas was found dead beside the three-wheeler in a spot of overgrown grass outside the abandoned house where they had struck a concrete pillar.

Officers had been searching for him in that area and were flagged down by a citizen who had spotted the wrecked motorcycle.

Dozens of family members flocked to the scene. The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office notified Thomas’s family of his death.