CRIME & SAFETY

Authorities have released the name of a man fatally shot while driving in west Birmingham in an apparent targeted attack. Birmingham police on Sunday identified the victim as Micah Honor. He was 24 and lived in Adamsville. Honor had been honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corp. The shooting happened...

The Birmingham Police Department is conducting a homicide investigation Saturday evening in south Birmingham.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. — The fiancee of a Jefferson County sheriff's deputy is speaking out after she says he was badly injured on the job and nearly lost his life. The deputy, who we are identifying as Clint, was responding to a call of rocks being thrown at cars in the Clay area when his fiancee says he was attacked by the suspect. His fiancee, Dawn, recalled the incident.

TRUSSVILLE, Ala. (WBMA) — Three people who were on an interstate highway are recovering from injuries after someone shot into their car. It happened on I-59, northeast of Birmingham, Ala., Friday night. Police said officers were dispatched to a gas station for a report of an assault. The gas...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Three men where shot Friday night when they were driving on the interstate, according to police reports. Officers with the Birmingham Police Department arrived at the Shell gas station on Chalkville Road on report of an assault. Upon arrival, officers spoke to an adult male victim....

A large cloud of smoke was filling the sky Saturday afternoon in Birmingham. Birmingham Fire and Rescue said it was working a fire near the intersection of 17th Street Southwest and Lomb Avenue. Multiple crews had responded to the scene and were still working to extinguish the first as of 5 p.m.

A homicide investigation has started on Bessemer Road, following the death of Micah Honor, 24, from Adamsville, Alabama. The incident happened around 3:20 p.m. Initial reports suggested a traffic accident on Warrior Road. However, it was later revealed that Honor, the driver of one of the cars, had been shot.

Gabriel Surrett has been found, according to the Birmingham Police Department on Sunday.

A 30-year-old man who traveled from Texas to engage in sexual activity with a teenager has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. De’Airo DeShawn Bryant, 30, pleaded guilty this week to electronic solicitation of a child. The victim was 15 years old at the time and had met...

A 19-year-old man was found fatally shot inside a vehicle Friday night in Bessemer.

Two men were injured when someone reportedly shot into their vehicle Friday night on a Birmingham interstate. The shooting happened sometime before 8:45 p.m. on Interstate 59 northbound. The victims exited the interstate onto Chalkville Mountain Road in Trussville and stopped at a gas station for help. Trussville police and...

HOOVER, Ala. - The judge in the Carlee Russell false statements' case will not be allowing cameras in the courtroom. Russell is scheduled to appear in Hoover municipal court next month charged with filing a false police report and filing a false statement to law enforcement, both Class A misdemeanors.

ONEONTA, Ala. — A Homewood police officer on leave for an injury was arrested in Oneonta Wednesday. WVTM 13 reached out to the Blount County Sheriff’s Office, Oneonta police and the Oneonta superintendent, and none of them would tell us what Jason Kanaday is accused of. He was...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — One man is dead, two others are injured after a triple shooting in Birmingham Wednesday. Officer Truman Fitzgerald with the Birmingham Police Department said the shooting happened just before midnight on Fulton Avenue Southwest. Stay up-to-date: The latest headlines and weather from WVTM 13. But officers...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Birmingham Police are currently investigating an unclassified death investigation Thursday afternoon. Truman Fitzgerald with BPD stated that officers were dispatched to the 1500 block of Tuscaloosa Avenue on reports of a body in the area. They arrived and were led by a resident to the 500 block of 16th Street Southwest, where […]

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBMA) — Authorities in Alabama are asking the public to help them solve a year-old murder case. The Birmingham Police Department said 25-year-old Asia Johnson died on Sept. 30, 2022. She was found unresponsive in Birmingham. An autopsy uncovered that Johnson had been shot with a pellet...

The Birmingham Police Department is investigating a deadly hit-and-run on Interstate 65. Around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night, 36-year-old Malcolm Lemoyne Love was walking in the southbound lanes of I-65 when he was fatally struck by an unknown driver who left the scene, according to a Jefferson County coroner report. So...

The Jefferson County Coroner's Office is asking for the public's help locating family of a man that was struck and killed by a vehicle the evening of September 26.

A confrontation happened on Sept. 14th between the Birmingham Police Department and the local high school band director. Police rushed the band to finish, but their director Johnny Mims insisted that they finish their song since they were just a minute away from being done with their performance. According to...

The Birmingham Police Department announced Friday that Birmingham residents who drive a Hyundai or Kia can pick up a free anti-theft steering wheel lock at a BPD location.