Just one year ago, Erskin Irvin Jr.’s family grieved outside the yellow crime scene tape as police investigated his ambush killing in front of their Norwood house.

It was the same scene again Wednesday night when Irvin’s adopted brother was gunned down, again in the neighborhood the family has long called home.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office on Thursday identified the victim as Valdez Deundra Stephenson, 37. Irvin’s mother, Janice, had raised Stephenson since he was a toddler and considered him her own.

“I just don’t know how much more I can take,’’ she said.

North Precinct officers responded about 10:10 p.m. to calls of shots fired in and around the 3200 block of 13th Avenue North.

Once in the neighborhood, police found multiple shell casings in the area. They continued to investigate, and a short time later found Stephenson unresponsive in the yard of a home.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene at 10:27 p.m.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said details are limited.

“What our patrol officers and detectives know at this time is that neighbors called in reporting the shots fired,’’ he said. “They canvassed the area and that’s when they found the victim.”

“We do have family on scene and the family is extremely emotional,’’ Fitzgerald said. “We understand, and we’re hoping to learn more about the victim so we can pinpoint possibly what led to him being shot.”

Investigators place 20 to 30 evidence markers on the ground. It wasn’t immediately clear how many guns were fired.

“We do believe the victim was the targeted,’’ he said.

Stephenson’s brother died May 11, 2023, when gunmen opened fire on the 37-year-old in the 1400 block of 33rd Street North.

When the ambush shooting stopped, the father of two sons had been hit more than 20 times.

Irvin, a truck driver, had gotten off work and been home only about an hour. He was at the home he shared with his mother in the 1400 block of 33rd Street North.

Home security camera footage showed what happened next.

“You can watch him leaving out of the house,’’ sister Tiffany Irvin previously told AL.com. “He was telling my aunt bye and as he walked down the steps and got in his car, they ran from darkness across the street and shot up his car.”

She said the video showed three masked gunmen carrying out the ambush, standing at his car and unleashing more than 35 rounds.

Family members heard the shots and ran outside.

“You wouldn’t shoot and kill an animal the way they did my brother and did it right in front of our mother’s home,’’ Tiffany Irvin said earlier this month. “What could he have possibly done that was so bad?”

“My family hasn’t been the same since this tragedy happened,’’ she said.

Irvin’s killing remains unsolved, and family members on Wednesday’s night scene were visibly distraught that they now had another loved one gone.

The family has no idea who killed them or why.

Stephenson is Birmingham’s 58th homicide of 2024. Of those, five have been ruled justifiable and therefore aren’t deemed criminal.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 81 homicides including the 58 in Birmingham.

Anyone with information is asked to call Birmingham homicide detectives at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.