Douglas Fitzgerald Youngblood Jr., a 29-year-old Black man, was fatally shot late on May 15, 2024, in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 5500 block of 1st Avenue South near Woodlawn. Police said officers were sent there at about 11:57 p.m. after a ShotSpotter alert picked up roughly four gunshots, and by the time they arrived, Youngblood was lying unresponsive in the roadway with an apparent gunshot wound near his crashed vehicle. He was taken to UAB Hospital, where the Jefferson County Coroner said he
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