Two men were found shot to death Thursday morning in a downtown Birmingham senior living facility.

North Precinct officers were dispatched just before 11 a.m. to Freedom Manor apartments at 1617 Fifth Ave. North.

The facility is operated by the Birmingham Housing Authorities and is for residents ages 62 and older.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade said officers entered a fourth-floor apartment and found both victims unresponsive and suffering from gunshot wounds.

Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced them both dead on the scene.

Both victims lived at Freedom Manor. They were found dead in an apartment of one of the victims.

Wade said a friend with a key to the apartment made the discovery and called 911 immediately.

“This is a secure facility for senior citizens,’’ Wade said.

The deaths did not appear to be a murder-suicide and are being investigated as a double homicide.

Wade said investigators don’t yet know how long the victims had been dead. No residents have yet reported hearing gunfire.

The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office will perform autopsies to determine that information.

The victims are city’s 110th and 111th homicide this year.

Of those, eight have been ruled justified and two others happened in previous years, but the victims died in 2024.

In all of Jefferson County, there have been 142 homicides including the 111 in Birmingham.

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