Family members are mourning the death of a young man killed in a hail of gunfire in Birmingham’s Kingston community.

Tiffany Moore said her son, 22-year-old Demarious Antwon Cherry, had gone to the store for his aunt and was on the way home when a shootout erupted in the 4600 block of Roscoe Avenue and a gunfight ensued.

“I was asleep, and my daughter called me and told me my son was dead,’’ Moore said. “It’s hard.”

Cherry’s family said they believe he was caught in the fatal crossfire.

Birmingham police said they are in the early stages of the investigation and have not yet determined what happened, but said multiple calibers of weapons were among the at least 40 shots fired.

“They need to stop all this killing and shooting,’’ Moore said.

The shooting happened about 9:40 p.m. Wednesday on Roscoe Avenue in the Rev. Dr. Morrell Todd Homes in the Kingston area.

South Precinct officers were in the area and heard the barrage of gunfire. At the same time, said Officer Truman Fitzgerald, Shot Spotter alerted authorities to shots fired on Roscoe Avenue.

“It sounded like a massive shootout to our officers because of how close they were to the shooting,’’ Fitzgerald said.

Neighborhood President Eldrige Knighton agreed.

“I heard the shots. I heard multiple gunshots,’’ Knighton said. “It was different caliber guns going off. Once I heard the sirens, I made my way up here.”

Police arrived to find Cherry near a set of steps at the end of an apartment building. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service pronounced him dead on the scene at 10 p.m.

“Officers reported to me there was a crowd when they arrived and the crowd scattered,’’ Fitzgerald said.

No one is in custody.

“As with many cases in our housing communities, thanks to the Housing Authority, we have a great surveillance system,’’ Fitzgerald said. “We are going to look into those resources and our Real Time Crime Center is going to look into that.”

Residents reported taking cover when the shots erupted Wednesday night.

“It’s extremely dangerous when you have a densely populated neighborhood like this,’’ Fitzgerald said.

Cherry and much of his family lived in Kingston. Knighton said Cherry was respected in the neighborhood.

“He didn’t me with nobody. He tended to his own business,’’ his mother said. “He was either at my house, his sister’s house, or his brother’s house. He stayed to himself.”

She said her son didn’t own a gun.

He attended Woodlawn High School and graduated from Dupuy Alternative School.

“He was a quiet, caring person,’’ Moore said. “He’d go out of his way to help everybody he could.”

“I’m not supposed to be burying my son,’’ Moore said. “My kids are supposed to burying me.”

She said the family is heartbroken.

A GoFundMe started to help with Cherry’s burial described him as a “bright, loving young man who loved his family and friends.” Donations to the GoFundMe can be made here.

“I love him, and I miss him,’’ she said. “I wish he was still here.”

Wednesday night’s homicide is the fifth slaying in the city since late Friday night/early Saturday morning.

Fortunately, Fitzgerald said, police have arrested suspects in five of the city’s last six killings.

“The message we want out there is we are going to take these killers off our streets for harming our community members,’’ he said.

Cherry is the city’s 13th homicide this year. In all of Jefferson County, there have been 18 homicides including the 13 in Birmingham.

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