BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Police say a man who was shot and killed inside a car is the 100th homicide victim this year in Alabama’s most populous city.
Birmingham police spokesman Officer Rod Mauldin tells news outlets 39-year-old Perry Joe Lewis Jr. died at the scene Sunday night. Officers found the Fairfield resident and another man shot inside a car in Birmingham’s Ensley neighborhood.
Mauldin says the other man was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. He says Birmingham’s gunfire detection system, ShotSpotter, alerted police about the shooting.
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Mauldin says it appears that the two men were struck by gunfire from another vehicle that had pulled up beside them. Police have not made any arrests in the shooting.
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