The weekend violence in the Birmingham area continued early this morning when someone was shot to death outside an east Jefferson County Waffle House.
Jefferson County sheriff’s Lt. Joni Money said deputies were dispatched at 1:30 a.m. to the restaurant in the 2200 block of Center Point Parkway. The report was that a person was threatening to shoot patrons.
Before deputies got on the scene, Money said, the 26-year-old man got into an altercation with a patron. The patron then shot the man and left the location.
The 26-year-old was pronounced dead on the scene.
Three people were killed in Birmingham Saturday, one at the Pita Stop on Southside, one near a food truck in the Lakeview District and another inside a southwest Birmingham home.
Countywide, there have been 183 homicides in 2023.
Anyone with information on the shooting outside Waffle House is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777 or the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 205-325-1450, option 2.