The April shooting death of a man in southwest Birmingham has been ruled justifiable.

Cornell Dewayne Richardson, 24, was shot to death on April 30.

Birmingham’s West Precinct officers were dispatched at 10:40 p.m. that Sunday to the 3100 block of Steiner Avenue on a report of shots fired in the area. While they were en route, the called was upgraded to a person shot.

Police arrived on the scene to find an adult male lying in the roadway. He was next to a vehicle that had been shot into multiple times.

That victim was taken to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.

While officers were beginning their investigation, Fitzgerald said, they learned another gunshot victim -later identified as Richardson – had shown up at Princeton Baptist Medical Center. Richardson died at the hospital.

Police at the time of the shooting said they believed Richardson and the other man may have fired shots at one another.

Sgt. LaQuitta Wade on Wednesday detectives presented their evidence to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, which ruled no criminal charges would be filed.

Richardson’s slaying is the fifth of the city’s 64 homicides this year to be ruled justified.

According to Richardson’s obituary, he graduated from Minor High School in 2018 and was in The Dannon Project to obtain his CDL license.

“His smile would brighten the room.  To his family he was an exceptional father with a great sense of humor, smart, the center of attention, charismatic, self-motivating, affectionate, love to dance, make his family laugh and just a joy to be around,’’ the obituary read.