More than six years have passed since a 20-year-old man died in a barrage of gunfire on Birmingham’s Valley Avenue, and police and family have not given up hope of finding the killer or killers.

Kijuan Harrell, a 20-year-old graduate of Pinson Valley High School, was shot to death June 23, 2018, while sitting in the front passenger’s seat of a vehicle.

The shots rang out just before 1:30 a.m. that Saturday in the 500 block of Valley Avenue.

The vehicle Harrell was in ended up in a parking spot at the far west end of Fox Valley Apartments.

He was taken to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:13 a.m. from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Another male was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting but was not injured.

Police early in the investigation said Harrell may have been a bystander caught in crossfire.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said Thursday the shots were fired from a black vehicle, believed to be a Nissan Maxima.

“Kijuan was loved by many,’’ his mother, Chiquita Norman Dixon, told AL.com in 2018. “A piece of my soul has been ripped out and is not coming back.”

Dixon previously said she believes those who know what happened are not telling police, or her, the truth about what led to her son’s death.

Harrell graduated from high school with advanced diploma and played basketball.

Anyone with information that will aid our detectives, please contact the Homicide Division directly at 205-254-1764 or remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.