Vincent Edwin Pritchard, 56, was shot and killed on Friday, July 11, 2025, along 6th Avenue North in Bessemer, Alabama. Pritchard, a Valley resident known to friends and family as Vint or Crim, was one of two people slain in Bessemer within a few hours that day.

Investigators identified a suspect quickly. A woman named Annie Slayton was taken into custody and charged with murder; she was booked into the Jefferson County Jail.

If anyone knew Vincent Pritchard, his routines, or saw activity on 6th Avenue North on July 11, 2025, that information could be important to investigators.