Aneta Honor knows heartache.

There was pain when her nephew was shot to death in 2016 outside the family’s Fairfield home. It was there again in 2018 when her sister and her other nephew were fatally gunned down outside the same house.

But perhaps the worst heartbreak came in 2023 when her firstborn, her only son, a U.S. marine, was shot dead while driving through Birmingham’s Five Points West in broad daylight.

“It’s a lot,” Aneta said. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about my baby.”

Micah Honor, 24, was killed Sept. 30, 2023.

His slaying remains unsolved, and police are again asking for help bringing the killer or killers to justice.

Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information in the case.

“I have not gotten to a point where I’m able to move on,” Aneta said, “at least until I get some type of closure and get him some type of justice.”

Micah graduated from Minor High School and then joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2018.

He served one term – four years – before being honorably discharged and returning to Alabama where he lived with his girlfriend in Adamsville.

Once back in the Birmingham area, Micah worked first at Auto Zone and then Walmart with plans to soon start HVAC school and training.

“Micah was a child that would take everything apart and put it back together,” Aneta said. “There was nothing Micah couldn’t do. It was amazing how limitless his mind was.”

On the Saturday of his death, Aneta had gone to her church to help give out food.

When she left, she spoke with Micah on the phone. He was planning to go to her home – also in Adamsville – to pick up grocery items from her, as he often did.

“I got off the phone with him at 2:58 p.m.,” Aneta said. “His girlfriend was calling me at 3:15 p.m. telling me he was killed.”

It was just after 3 p.m. when police say a suspect who was on foot opened fire on Micah while he was driving in the 2100 block of Bessemer Road.

The injured Micah struck several other vehicles before his car crashed through a fence and came to a stop in front of the small apartment abandoned building in the 2500 block of Warrior Road.

Micah was pronounced dead on the scene.

Police have said they believed Micah was targeted, but no motive has been disclosed.

Aneta has no idea who would have wanted her son dead, or why.

“I tried to give the detective as much information as I knew, which was limited,” she said.

“Micah was outgoing. He was a people person,” Aneta said. “He loved everybody and everybody loved him.”

“There was never a dull moment when he was in the room and laughter always abounded in his presence,” according to his obituary. “He was always willing to look out for a friend and eager to lend a helping hand. Micah had a love for cooking, cars and dogs.”

Micah was Aneta’s only son and the oldest of her three children.

“There was a lot of depending on him,” she said.

The two were close and especially leaned on each other after the previous slayings of their other family members.

Aneta and her sister, 48-year-old Catherine “Mrs. Cat” Honor had raised their children together and were like one big family.

“It was like she had five kids, and I had five kids,” Aneta said.

Mrs. Cat and her 23-year-old son, Tavaris, were found dead Monday, June 3, 2019, at their Fairfield home.

Fairfield police and fire medics responded to the home in the 200 block of 57th Street shortly after 6 a.m. that Monday.

Once on the scene, they found Varis unresponsive in the front yard. Cathy Honor was found a short distance away in the doorway. Both were pronounced dead on the scene at 6:30 a.m. from gunshot wounds

Three years prior, Mrs. Cat’s 22-year-old son, Omar, was fatally shot outside the same home.

The suspect in that case pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 20 years in prison with three years to serve.

“All of it’s been hard,” Aneta said. “We were going through our healing over them. My children were basically the only thing I have – my little family.”

“We’d been leaning on each other,” she said of her son. “Micah had been my rock, and I was his. I no longer feel like a whole person.”

Despite all the grief, Aneta said she still believes justice will come.

“I have no choice but to have hope,” she said. “I believe what the word of God says. I hold onto my faith. It’s a journey.”

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